Senior Backend Engineer, Pinwheel
Integrations Platform
$160-200k
Offers 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
$160-200k
Offers 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
- 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!
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- Computer Science degree or comparable experience
- Experience designing and operating services that handle concurrency, failure modes, and meaningful scale
- Experience with backend platform / infrastructure: services, queues, data pipelines, async processing
- 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
- AI-forward thinking: you have set yourself apart from others in willingness to drive AI projects forward
Desirable
- 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
- Expertise in Python
- Experience working in Fintech or comparable regulatory environment
- Track record of reducing oncall noise
What the job involves
- 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 Platform Engineer to own platform-level problem spaces end-to-end, raise the technical bar, and make the Integrations Engineering team measurably more productive
- You'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
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, Visa 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 & Executive Chair)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.
Jamieson Rice
(CEO)Previously CFO at Pinwheel, was the Founder & CEO at Vlaris, Board Director at The H Hub and was a Manager at Bain & Company.
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