Sr. Backend Engineer, AI Projects
Position Summary & Responsibilities
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.**
Who are we looking for?
Pinwheel's Integrations Platform (IP) team builds the services, primitives, and tooling that make 1800+ integrations work at scale — proxy management, browser automation, identity flows, session handling, and the runtime that every Integrations Engineer (IE) builds on top of.
We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to own AI-driven, platform-level problem spaces end-to-end, raise the technical bar, and make the Integrations Engineering team measurably more productive. You'll identify categories of recurring problems, design systems that eliminate them, and lead the execution alongside junior and mid-level engineers.
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 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 mea
Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights
Evaluating raw technical execution speed combined with deep empathy for developer experience and financial compliance infrastructure.
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