Pinwheel

Product Engineer, Backend

Pinwheel
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Base Salary

$160k - $190k/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 functionality for internal and customer-facing products.
  • Maintain and improve the Python-based microservice stack.
  • Create and improve engineering tooling, processes, and standards.
  • Build products and integrations including Bill Switch, API versions, tax functionality, customer dashboard APIs, and banking-platform 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 and frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, Rails, or Gin.
  • Working experience with modern frontend web frameworks such as React or Vue.
  • Experience playing a key implementation role in projects involving multiple teams and engineers.
  • Ability and interest in working closely with customers.
  • Uses AI responsibly while maintaining strong foundational engineering skills.
  • Maintains high technical quality and a commitment to continued growth.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week in the NYC office.
  • Salary, equity, and benefits package.
  • 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.

Tech Stack

DjangoFastAPIGinPythonReactRuby on RailsVue.js

Categories

BackendProduct Engineering
Pinwheel

About Pinwheel

51-200 employees

Pinwheel helps banks win primacy with user-centric solutions that deepen relationships and grow lifetime value. Pinwheel's market leading digital deposit switch solution, used by the world's leading financial institutions, delivers 2x better conversion than the industry standard, greater security, and first-of-its kind share of wallet insights to power customer engagement programs to new heights.

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