Sr. Backend Engineer, Integrations Platform

Pinwheel•New York, NY

16h•$160,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Pinwheel is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Integrations Platform (IP) team. This team is responsible for building the services, primitives, and tooling that enable a large number of integrations to function at scale. The role involves owning platform-level problem spaces end-to-end, improving technical standards, and increasing the productivity of the Integrations Engineering team. The engineer will identify recurring problems, design solutions, and lead execution with junior and mid-level engineers. Pinwheel is a well-funded startup focused on revolutionizing financial services through technology, partnering with major brands to create better user experiences.

Requirements

5+ years of backend engineering experience
Computer Science degree or comparable experience
Experience designing and operating services that handle concurrency, failure modes, and meaningful scale
Experience with backend platform / infrastructure: services, queues, data pipelines, async processing
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
AI-forward thinking: you have set yourself apart from others in willingness to drive AI projects forward

Nice To Haves

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
Anti-bot / fingerprinting / detection work
Expertise in Python or comparable
Experience working in Fintech or comparable regulatory environment
Track record of reducing oncall noise

Responsibilities

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