Backend Software Engineering

This role is hybrid with 3 days a week in our NYC office.
**Pinwheel - Building the future of financial services in partnership with the biggest brands

“I love my banking app!” 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, Credit Karma, Amex, Discover, Intuit, X Money, Visa and more.
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 is looking for a creative product-focused engineer that craves autonomy and impact in their role to work across Pinwheel’s entire customer-facing stack. Product Engineering is at the heart of what we do here, and this role will help select and lead impactful projects that touch the surfaces our customers use every day. You’ll work on a nimble team, working directly with cross-functional stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design, to execute this mission-critical work.
You’ll focus mostly on back-end engineering work (web-based microservices, customer-facing APIs), with some supporting front-end engineering work as well.
Finally, you’ll join a team known for high-velocity, high-quality output and contribute to leveling up that team through mentorship and continuous improvement of our processes and standards.
Deeply understand our customer needs and design systems to solve them
Build, scale, and evolve the data models, services, and systems that power our APIs
Design and ship impactful new functionality in our products, especially focused on our internal and customer-facing back-end APIs
Maintain and improve our Python-based microservice stack
Support (and at times lead) the development of new products in the Pinwheel ecosystem, balancing high product velocity with quality and reliability
Contribute to iterative technical quality: we pay down tech debt while we’re working on new projects and expect you to be a leader in the responsible pay-down of tech debt
Create and improve tooling, processes, and engineering standards across the team
Mentor engineers and help the team grow
5+ years of experience building and maintaining back-end or full-stack applications: data modeling, application logic, and API design

• Prior experience working at an early-stage startup or small tech company
• Deep expertise with modern back-end languages/frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django, Rails, Gin)
• At least some experience working with modern frontend web frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)
• Played key implementation roles in projects with multiple teams and engineers
• Ability to design systems and evaluate the tradeoffs in scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability
• Passion for working closely with customers
• 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!
Belong - Join a community that is passionate and relentless about building fairer financial systems for all.
Great compensation & equity packages

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Life & short-term disability insurance
• Flexible PTO policy that prioritizes recharge and balance
• 401K for retirement planning
• At Pinwheel, total compensation is made up of salary + equity + benefits. 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 - $190,000 base.
Diversity & Inclusion at Pinwheel

At Pinwheel, we are committed to building an environment that is diverse and inclusive. We believe that having people across different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives enables us not only to build the best financial products, but to help us realize the best versions of ourselves.