Software Product Engineer, Pinwheel
Backend-leaning
$160-190k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
API for payroll connectivity
Be an early applicant
API for payroll connectivity
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-190k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help financial institutions win and keep customers by delivering flawless customer experiences.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining back-end or full-stack applications: data modeling, application logic, and API design
- Prior experience working at an early-stage startup or small tech company
- Deep expertise with modern back-end languages/frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django, Rails, Gin)
- At least some experience working with modern frontend web frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)
- Prior experience working on API-based products is a big plus
- Played key implementation roles in projects with multiple teams and engineers
- Desire to learn new systems and technology as our business evolves
- Ability to design systems and evaluate the tradeoffs in scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability
- Passion for working closely with customers
- Creativity, empathy, and a drive for continuous improvement
What the job involves
- Pinwheel is looking for a creative product-focused engineer that craves autonomy and impact in their role to work across Pinwheel’s entire customer-facing stack
- Product Engineering is at the heart of what we do here, and this role will help select and lead impactful projects that touch the surfaces our customers use every day
- You’ll work on a nimble team, working directly with cross-functional stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design, to execute this mission-critical work
- You’ll focus mostly on back-end engineering work (web-based microservices, customer-facing APIs), with some supporting front-end engineering work as well
- Finally, you’ll join a team known for high-velocity, high-quality output and contribute to leveling up that team through mentorship and continuous improvement of our processes and standards
- Deeply understand our customer needs and design systems to solve them
- Build, scale, and evolve the data models, services, and systems that power our APIs
- Design and ship impactful new functionality in our products, especially focused on our internal and customer-facing back-end APIs
- Maintain and improve our Python-based microservice stack
- Support (and at times lead) the development of new products in the Pinwheel ecosystem, balancing high product velocity with quality and reliability
- Contribute to iterative technical quality: we pay down tech debt while we’re working on new projects and expect you to be a leader in the responsible pay-down of tech debt
- Create and improve tooling, processes, and engineering standards across the team
- Mentor engineers and help the team grow
Our take
Pinwheel builds an API that helps Neobanks access and modify their customers' payroll services. It's primarily focused on enabling easy direct-deposit switches in order to promote a fairer financial system for all.
Pinwheel is laser-focused on perfecting UX and product integration in this area, which has won the company coverage of over 70% of paid Americans, and nearly half of all Neobank direct-deposit switches. This secure market position will help it comfortably expand its client services into other API offerings like income verification.
As the US begins to competitively adopt the Open Banking methods already popular in the EU, Pinwheel has made some strategic partnerships, including Lumin Digital and Bankjoy. These collaborations are driving increased account activation and deposit growth for financial institutions, positioning Pinwheel as a key player in Open Banking methods.
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Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$50m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $77m
Company benefits
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401K for retirement planning
- Paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Mentorship opportunities
- Free Citibike membership
- Team building initiatives
- Free mental health support
- Pet-friendly and snack-stocked office
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Hybrid-first work model
Company HQ
Kips Bay, New York, NY
Leadership
Kurtis Lin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied at the University of California, Kurtis worked for UBS for a year before roles at Idean and Luxe as a General Manager for 2 years. After a year as Head of Business Operations at Volvo, he co-founded Pinwheel in July 2018, where he has served as CEO since.
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