Senior Backend Engineer, Pinwheel
Product
$145-220k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
API for payroll connectivity
Job no longer available
API for payroll connectivity
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$145-220k
+ Equity
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
- 4+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems
- Technically lead projects which have involved multiple engineering teams
- A desire to think deeply about API design
- Ability to write and debug production-quality backend code
- Ability to design new systems and evaluate the tradeoffs in scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability
- A desire to focus on customer needs and solve real problems
- Willingness and ability to work onsite at NYC headquarters 3 days a week
- Pinwheel requires employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as permitted under applicable law
What the job involves
- Pinwheel is looking for creative and efficient senior backend engineers who will design, build, scale, and evolve the backend services that power Pinwheel's APIs
- You will collaborate across product and engineering to ship entire systems that deliver real value to our users
- You'll help identify and prioritize the most impactful problems to solve
- And you will contribute to leveling up the engineering team through mentorship and improving tooling, processes, and engineering standards
- Build, scale, and evolve the data models, services, and systems that power our APIs
- Collaborate across teams and functions to deliver entire features and products to our users
- Deeply understand our customer needs and design systems to solve them
- 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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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
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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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