Backend Engineer, Integrations Platform

with one of DynamoDB, S3, IAM, ECR, and the operational instincts that come with it (latency, retries, throttling)

• Possess solid systems-design fundamentals. You can scope a small service, reason about failure modes, and defend tradeoffs in design review
• AI-enhanced development: you've meaningfully integrated AI-assisted engineering (Claude Code, Copilot, agentic tooling) into your workflow and have opinions about where it helps vs. hurts
• Comfort with concurrency and async patterns such as threads, gevents / greenlets, async / await, or equivalent

Nice to haves:

• Browser automation: Selenium, CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol), Playwright
• Browser fingerprinting work: TLS fingerprinting (JA3), header / User-Agent analysis, captcha challenges (Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, Arkose), residential or datacenter proxy management
• Identity protocols at a working level: OAuth2, SAML, OIDC, MFA orchestration (Okta, Microsoft Entra, PingOne, Duo, ID.me)
• FastAPI, Redis, Celery, gRPC in production
• Fintech, payroll, or other regulated environments

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!

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 $115,000-$140,000 base.

At Pinwheel, we are committed to building an environment that is diverse and inclusive.

We believe that having people across different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives enables us not only to build the best financial products, but to help us realize the best versions of ourselves.

Pinwheel is an equal opportunity employer, and we aim to be an open and supportive place to work.