Pinwheel
Financial Services
BackendEngineer,IntegrationsPlatform
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“Backend Engineer, Integrations Platform at Pinwheel. Skills: Backend engineering, Integrations platform, Production reliability. Own platform projects end-to-end. Ship reliability improvements”
Industry & Context.
Incident response; Root cause analysis
On-call rotation, 3 days in office
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3-5 years backend integrations engineering, Computer Science degree or equivalent, Python skills, Production operations experience, Working knowledge of AWS, Solid systems-design fundamentals, AI-enhanced development experience
Nice to Have
Browser automation experience, Browser fingerprinting work experience, Identity protocols experience, FastAPI, Redis, Celery, gRPC experience, Fintech, payroll, or regulated environments experience
What You'll Do.
Own platform projects end-to-end
Ship reliability improvements
Ship performance improvements
Raise floor for Integration Engineers
Apply AI-assisted workflows
Operate platform in production
Participate in on-call rotation
Ship fixes to prevent recurrence
Stay on top of dependency hygiene
Stay on top of security hygiene
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams
Full Job Description
**This role is hybrid with 3 days a week in our NYC office.** **This position does not offer visa sponsorship now or in the future.** Pinwheel - Building the future of financial services in partnership with the biggest brands “I love my banking app!” said no one, ever. Pinwheel is on a mission to change that. We believe banks and financial service providers represent the greatest opportunity to build 10x better experiences, especially in the AI age. We’re building the next generation of financial products alongside some of the biggest names in the market including Robinhood, DoorDash, Chime, Cash App, Credit Karma, American Express, Discover, Intuit, Acorns, Visa and more. 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! Pinwheel has raised $77M from top-tier investors such as Coatue, Notable, First Round, Upfront, Primary, American Express, Franklin Templeton, Indeed, Semper Virens and more. Who are we looking for? Pinwheel's Integrations Platform (IP) team builds the services, primitives, and tooling that make 1800+ integrations work at scale, including proxy management, browser automation, identity flows, session handling, and the runtime that every Integrations Engineer (IE) builds on top of. We're hiring a mid-level Backend Engineer to own well-scoped platform projects end-to-end, ship reliability and performance improvements that benefit every IE, and grow into broader systems ownership. You'll spend your time roughly between platform-layer feature work (services, jobs, framework improvements), production reliability (on-call rotation, incident response, dependency hygiene), and integration-adjacent infrastructur
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