Fullstack Engineer (Backend leaning)

Pinwheel

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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
Desire to learn new systems and technology as our business evolves
Ability to design systems and evaluate the tradeoffs in scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability
Passion for working closely with customers
Creativity, empathy, and a drive for continuous improvement

Nice To Haves

Prior experience working on API-based products is a big plus

Responsibilities

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