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Pinwheel · 21 hours ago

Product Engineer (Backend)

positionNew York, NY
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$160K/yr - $190K/yr
date5+ years exp

Pinwheel is a company focused on transforming financial services by collaborating with major brands. They are seeking a Product Engineer (Backend) to design and develop backend systems, APIs, and data models, while also mentoring team members and improving engineering standards.

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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

Qualification

PythonAPI designBack-end developmentFastAPIDjangoFull-stack applicationsData modelingMicroservicesEmpathyContinuous improvementMentorshipCreativity

Required

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

Benefits

Great compensation & equity packages
Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
Life & short-term disability insurance
Unlimited vacation
Paid parental leave
401K for retirement planning
Mentorship opportunities
Free Citibike membership
Pet friendly offices and Zoom spaces

Company

Pinwheel

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Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
dateFounded in 2018
location
New York, New York, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://www.pinwheelapi.com

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$77M
Key Investors
Notable CapitalCoatue
2022-01-18Series B· $50M
2021-06-02Series A· $20M
2020-08-02Series A

Leadership Team

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Kurtis Lin
Co-Founder & CEO
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Curtis Lee
Chairman, President, and Cofounder
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