Backend Engineer; Integrations Platform

• Pinwheel's Integrations Platform (IP) team builds the services, primitives, and tooling that make 1800+ integrations work at scale, including proxy management, browser automation, identity flows, session handling, and the runtime that every Integrations Engineer (IE) builds on topof
• We're hiring a mid-level Backend Engineer to own well-scoped platform projects end-to-end, ship reliability and performance improvements that benefit every IE, and grow into broader systems ownership
• You'll spend your time roughly between platform-layer feature work (services, jobs, framework improvements), production reliability (on-call rotation, incident response, dependency hygiene), and integration-adjacent infrastructure (proxy pools, browser fleet, identity/auth tooling)
• This is a hands-on builder role on a small, high-leverage team
• Own platform projects end-to-end, from scoping and design review through shipping and operation
• Scraping Engineering & Research Heavy Projects:
  You've worked on reverse engineering problems such as integrations, scrapers, automation, or platform work against systems that are moving targets. Familiar with the rhythm of "ship a fix, monitor for changes, ship the next fix."
• Ship reliability and performance improvements to shared infrastructure (proxy management, browser fleet, on-prem infra, session/state management, latency-sensitive AWS code paths)
• Raise the floor for Integration Engineers through shared libraries, custom lint rules, internal tooling, and code review that catches systemic issues before they ship
• Apply AI-assisted workflows thoughtfully, both to your own work and to the tooling other engineers use
• Operate the platform in production: participate in the on-call rotation, triage incidents, write postmortems, and ship fixes that prevent recurrence
• Stay on top of dependency and security hygiene, including CodeQL findings, CVE remediation, TLS/crypto updates

• 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

If you're excited by the idea of having your work touch and impact the lives of hundreds of millions of consumers, Pinwheel is the place for you

If you get stoked about building products alongside the biggest brands in the world, Pinwheel is the place for you

If you want to join a scrappy, hustling team that is obsessed with defining the future of financial services, Pinwheel is the place for you!

Production operations experience: you've been on an on-call rotation, debugged real incidents, and shipped fixes under time pressure

• Strong Python skills (or comparable language with a clear path to ramping on Python 3.10+)
• AI-enhanced development: you've meaningfully integrated AI-assisted engineering (Claude Code, Copilot, agentic tooling) into your workflow and have opinions about where it helps vs. hurts
• Comfort with concurrency and async patterns such as threads, gevents / greenlets, async / await, or equivalent
• Working knowledge of AWS. Experience with one of DynamoDB, S3, IAM, ECR, and the operational instincts that come with it (latency, retries, throttling)
• Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
• Possess solid systems-design fundamentals. You can scope a small service, reason about failure modes, and defend tradeoffs in design review
• 3-5 years of backend integrations engineering experience building production services
• Browser automation:
  Selenium, CDP (Chrome Dev Tools Protocol), Playwright
• Browser fingerprinting work: TLS fingerprinting (JA3), header / User-Agent analysis, captcha challenges (Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, Arkose), residential or datacenter proxy management
• Identity protocols at a working level: OAuth2, SAML, OIDC, MFA orchestration (Okta, Microsoft Entra, Ping One, Duo, )
• FastAPI, Redis, Celery, gRPC in production
• Fintech, payroll, or other regulated environments