Sr. Backend Engineer, AI Projects

About Pinwheel 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.

Pinwheel

The Primacy Platform

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pinwheelapi.com

51-200 employees

Software Development

New York, New York

Privately Held

12k LinkedIn followers

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• 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 Backend Engineer to own AI-driven, 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.
• Pinwheel is a hybrid environment, with a 3-day in-office requirement here in our NYC headquarters, near Union Square.
• 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
• Computer Science degree or comparable experience
• AI-forward thinking: you have set yourself apart from others in willingness to drive AI projects forward
• 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

Preferred

• 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
• Experience designing and operating services that handle concurrency, failure modes, and meaningful scale
• Experience with backend platform / infrastructure: services, queues, data pipelines, async processing
• Experience working in Fintech or comparable regulatory environment
• Track record of reducing oncall noise
• At Pinwheel, total compensation is made up of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they can bring to the organization in delivering outsized results. The talent market is competitive, and maintaining our ability to recruit and retain the best team possible is a top priority for Pinwheel. When creating an offer, we consider interview performance, candidate experience, external market competitiveness, and internal equity in thoughtfully assessing compensation. The expected cash salary range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000 base.

• Best time to join - Our company is small but well-funded, meaning you are joining at a time where you can impact and shape the company.
• Be a cultural builder - You will have an active hand in molding the company culture and being a part of the entrepreneurial journey.
• Build something revolutionary - Help build the products on the bleeding edge of financial services!
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Life & short-term disability insurance
• Flexible PTO policy that prioritizes recharge and balance
• Paid parental leave
• 401K for retirement planning
• Mentorship opportunities
• Free Citibike membership
• Pet friendly offices and Zoom spaces