Hybrid NYC Backend Product Engineer: APIs & FinTech

Pinwheel; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical + Dental

Vision

Disability

Unlimited vacation

Parental leave

401K

Citibike

Pet friendly

Job summary

Pinwheel, building the future of financial services, is hiring a mid-to-senior backend-leaning Product Engineer for our Product Engineering team in New York City. You’ll build public APIs, embedded SDKs, and a customer management dashboard, while collaborating with product to drive maximum customer value.

You’ll work on a lean, high-velocity team balancing customer support, roadmap delivery, product improvements, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining back-end or full-stack applications with data modeling, application logic, and API design.
• Prior experience at an early-stage startup or small tech company.
• Deep expertise with modern back-end languages/frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django, Rails, Gin).
• Working experience with modern frontend web frameworks (React, Vue, etc.).
• Played key implementation roles in projects with multiple teams and engineers.
• Excited by working closely with customers.
• Responsibly uses AI on top of fundamental skills, doesn’t replace them.
• Maintains a high bar for technical quality and continues to level up.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and evolve the data models, services, and systems that power our APIs.
• Design and ship impactful new functionality in our products, especially backend APIs.
• Maintain and improve our Python-based microservice stack.
• Create and improve tooling, processes, and engineering standards across the team.
• Mentor engineers and help the team grow.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Data modeling

FastAPI

Django

Rails

Gin

React

Vue

Customer interaction

Tools

FastAPI

Django

Rails

Gin

React

Vue

Job description

Pinwheel, building the future of financial services, is hiring a mid-to-senior backend-leaning Product Engineer for our Product Engineering team in New York City. You’ll build public APIs, embedded SDKs, and a customer management dashboard, while collaborating with product to drive maximum customer value.

You’ll work on a lean, high-velocity team balancing customer support, roadmap delivery, product improvements, and reliability.