Senior Backend Engineer; AI Projects
Job in
York and North Yorkshire, York, North Yorkshire, YO1, England, UK
Listed on 2026-09-29
Listing for:
Pinwheel
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-29
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Backend Developer, Software Engineer, Software Architect, Cloud Engineer - Software
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Pinwheel’s Integrations Platform (IP) team builds the services, primitives, and tooling that make 1800+ integrations work at scale — proxy management, browser automation, identity flows, session handling, and the runtime that every Integrations Engineer (IE) builds on top of
- We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to own AI-driven, platform-level problem spaces end-to-end, raise the technical bar, and make the Integrations Engineering team measurably more productive
- Ou’ll identify categories of recurring problems, design systems that eliminate them, and lead the execution alongside junior and mid-level engineers
- Own platform initiatives end-to-end: scope, design, build, ship, and maintain
- Drive systems design for new integration infrastructure, including services, queues, data pipelines, async workflows
- Lead projects staffed with junior and mid-level engineers; make them measurably more productive through code review, design feedback, and the systems you build
- Identify and eliminate classes of problems rather than patching individual one off bugs
- Set technical direction in ambiguous problem spaces
- Collaborate closely with IE and adjacent teams to ensure platform primitives meet real consumer needs
- Paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Team building initiatives
- Free mental health support
- Pet-friendly and snack-stocked office
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Hybrid-first work model
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401K for retirement planning
- Mentorship opportunities
- Free Citibike membership
- AI-forward thinking: you have set yourself apart from others in willingness to drive AI projects forward
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- Strong systems design: your designs get adopted by peers; you can defend tradeoffs and anticipate failure modes
- Demonstrated autonomous project leadership: examples of owning ambiguous, multi-quarter projects from idea to business outcomes
- Computer Science degree or comparable experience
- Integrations experience: you’ve built against third-party APIs, dealt with auth flows, rate limits, and the operational reality of depending on external systems
- Browser automation experience (Selenium, CDP, Playwright): useful context for our integration surface
- Browser fingerprinting / detection work
- Experience designing and operating services that handle concurrency, failure modes, and meaningful scale
- Experience with backend platform / infrastructure: services, queues, data pipelines, async processing
- Experience working in Fintech or comparable regulatory environment
- Expertise in Python
- Track record of reducing oncall noise
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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