Backend Engineer, Integrations Platform

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. **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.** Who are we looking for? Pinwheel's Integrations Platform (IP) team builds the services, primitives, and tooling that make 1800+ in [... source excerpt omitted ...] vel 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 infrastructure (proxy pools, browser fleet, identity/auth tooling). This is a hands-on builder role on a small, high-leverage team. Pinwheel is a hybrid environment, with a 3-day in-office requirement here in our NYC headquarters, near Union Square. What will you do? Own platform proje [... source excerpt omitted ...] view that catches systemic issues before they ship Apply AI-assisted workflows thoughtfully, both to your own work and to the tooling other engineers use Operate the platform in production: participate in the on-call rotation, triage incidents, write postmortems, and ship fixes that prevent recurrence Stay on top of dependency and security hygiene, including CodeQL findings, CVE remediation, TLS/crypto updates What qualifications are necessary? 3-5 years of backend integrations engineering experience building production services Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience Strong Python skills (or comparable language with a clear path to ramping on Python 3.10+