Sr. Backend Engineer, Integrations Platform

Pinwheel$160K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Computer Science degree or comparable experience
  • Experience with concurrent services handling failure modes at scale
  • Proficient in designing backend platform infrastructure
  • Demonstrated autonomous leadership in complex projects
  • Strong systems design skills with a proven track record of adoption
  • AI-forward mindset demonstrated through past projects

Responsibilities

  • Own platform initiatives from scope to maintenance
  • Drive the design of new integration infrastructure solutions
  • Lead and mentor junior and mid-level engineers
  • Identify and fully resolve recurring problem classes
  • Set technical direction within ambiguous areas
  • Collaborate with Engineering teams to ensure practicality of platform designs

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
Full Job Description
**This role is hybrid with 3 days a week in our NYC office.**

**This position does not offer visa sponsorship now or in the future.**

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 Platform Engineer to own 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 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
What qualifications are necessary?
  • 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
  • Browser fingerprinting / detection work
  • Expertise in Python
  • Experience working in Fintech or comparable regulatory environment
  • Track record of reducing oncall noise
Why join Pinwheel?

Best time to join - Our company is small but well-funded, meaning you are joining at a time where you can impact and shape the company.

Be a cultural builder - You will have an active hand in molding the company culture and being a part of the entrepreneurial journey.

Build something revolutionary - Help build the products on the bleeding edge of financial services!

Benefits included:
  • 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

At Pinwheel, total compensation is made up of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they can bring to the organization in delivering outsized results. The talent market is competitive, and maintaining our ability to recruit and retain the best team possible is a top priority for Pinwheel. When creating an offer, we consider interview performance, candidate experience, external market competitiveness, and internal equity in thoughtfully assessing compensation. The expected cash salary range for this role is $160,000-$200,000 base.

About Pinwheel

Pinwheel is a financial services company that provides APIs for payroll, benefits, and HR data. The company was founded in 2019 by Kurt Rathmann and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Pinwheel's mission is to make it easier for developers to build financial applications by providing a simple and secure way to access payroll and HR data. The company has raised $20.5 million in funding to date.
Learn more about Pinwheel
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2019

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