Pinwheel · 17 hours ago
Software Product Engineer (backend-leaning)
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $190K/yr
5+ years expPinwheel is on a mission to revolutionize financial services by partnering with leading brands to create better banking experiences. The Software Product Engineer will focus on back-end engineering, developing impactful APIs and systems while mentoring team members and improving processes.
Financial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologySoftware
No H1B
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
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
Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$77MKey Investors
Notable CapitalCoatue
2022-01-18Series B· $50M
2021-06-02Series A· $20M
2020-08-02Series A
Leadership Team
Kurtis Lin
Co-Founder & CEO
Curtis Lee
Chairman, President, and Cofounder
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