Engineering, Pinwheel
$230-250k
+ Equity packages
3 days a week in office
API for payroll connectivity
Open for applications
API for payroll connectivity
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$230-250k
+ Equity packages
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
- You’re a force multiplier — you write production-grade code fast, and make everyone around you better. You’re already months if not years into leveraging AI to do the most productive work of your career
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining full stack applications, spanning data design, application logic, and user experiences. You’re able to design systems and evaluate tradeoffs in scalability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and speed to market
- You’ve shipped real products — and can explain how they moved the needle for your business. You have significant experience with modern backend frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django, Rails, Gin) and frontend frameworks (e.g. React)
- You’re hungry for ownership and accountability — you don’t wait for permission. You act
- You’re a clear communicator — you write and speak with clarity and precision for maximum impact
- You’re driven to excellence - you hold yourself and others to elite standards. You’re eager to learn and leverage new technology as our business evolves
- You’re excited to work onsite in NYC 3 days a week to move fast, collaborate deeply, and build trust face-to-face
What the job involves
- We’re seeking exceptionally skilled and technically hands-on full-stack Software Engineers to join our Product and Infrastructure Engineering teams and play a pivotal role in 0→1 building
- You’ll be responsible for designing, building, and scaling Pinwheel’s most critical products, including Direct Deposit Switch, Income & Employment Verification, and Bill Navigator
- You’ll be joining a team of engineers known for their unusually high output, deep technical expertise, and extreme ownership mentality
- We value engineering craftsmanship just as much as driving meaningful business impact
- We offer top-of-market compensation to attract top-of-market talent
- If you’re one of the best engineers you know—and you’re driven to build transformative products alongside others who operate at that level—this is your team
- Ship production code daily — you’ll actively design, build, and ship features across our mobile, frontend, and backend stack as we bring innovative new products to market while growing our core payroll connectivity products and expanding our network through partnerships with banking platforms and payroll companies
- Build with velocity and clarity — join an environment where engineers work quickly, communicate crisply, and take full ownership
- Own critical product and business outcomes — collaborate with Product to shape and deliver major initiatives that drive the business and enable us to exceed key revenue and other growth goals. Care deeply about effectively solving problems for our customers and their consumer end users
- Prioritize for leverage — identify and deliver the work that meaningfully moves the needle on the above
- Maintain engineering excellence — keep raising our high bar for code quality, system performance, security, and reliability
- Join a powerhouse team of exceptional engineers — learn from and mentor your peers, other high-performing engineers with growth mindsets who expect rigor, autonomy, and impact
- Help build and grow the team — participate in recruiting and interviewing other A+ engineers who elevate the team’s standards and output
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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