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Base Salary
$160k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Understand customer needs and design systems to address them.
- Build, scale, and evolve data models, services, and systems powering APIs.
- Design and ship backend-focused product functionality and internal and customer-facing APIs.
- Maintain and improve the Python-based microservice stack.
- Create and improve engineering tooling, processes, and standards.
- Build Bill Switch, API versioning, tax product, customer dashboard API, and banking partner integrations.
- Mentor engineers and help the team grow.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining backend or full-stack applications, including data modeling, application logic, and API design.
- Prior experience at an early-stage startup or small technology company.
- Deep expertise with modern backend languages or frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, Rails, or Gin.
- Working experience with modern frontend web frameworks such as React or Vue.
- Experience playing key implementation roles in projects involving multiple teams and engineers.
- Comfort working closely with customers.
- Ability to use AI responsibly while maintaining strong fundamental engineering skills.
- Commitment to high technical quality and continued professional growth.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits in addition to salary.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Life and short-term disability insurance.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Paid parental leave.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Mentorship opportunities.
- Free Citi Bike membership.
- Pet-friendly offices and Zoom spaces.
- Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week in the NYC office.
About Pinwheel
Pinwheel builds a B2B API platform that lets banks and fintechs power digital direct-deposit switching, payroll connectivity, and wallet-share insights. Its services, delivered as APIs and SDKs, span identity flows, session handling, and browser automation across 1,800+ employer and payroll integrations. The privately held company is headquartered in New York and sells to consumer banks and financial apps focused on account primacy and customer engagement.