Senior Backend Engineer - Scale Fintech APIs

Pinwheel; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great compensation & equity packages

Full medical, dental, and vision

Life & short-term disability insurance

Flexible PTO policy

Paid parental leave

401K for retirement planning

Free Citibike membership

Pet friendly offices and Zoom spaces

Job summary

Pinwheel is hiring a senior backend-leaning Product Engineer to join our Product Engineering team in NYC. You’ll build APIs, SDKs, and dashboards that power customer experiences for leading brands. You'll own data models, backend services, and tooling while collaborating with product and other engineers.

Hybrid work with 3 days in NYC; compensation includes salary, equity and benefits. You’ll mentor engineers and help the team scale, with a focus on reliability, performance, and security as we

Qualifications

• 5+ years building back-end or full-stack apps with APIs.
• Experience at early-stage startups or small tech companies.
• Deep expertise in modern back-end languages/frameworks.
• Experience with React or Vue on the frontend.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer needs and design scalable systems.
• Build and evolve data models, services, and APIs.
• Design and ship backend features with measurable impact.
• Maintain the Python-based microservice stack.
• Mentor engineers and raise the team’s skills.

Skills

API design

Data modeling

Backend dev

Team collaboration

Customer focus

Mentoring

Startup experience

Tools

FastAPI

Django

Rails

Gin

Job description

Pinwheel is hiring a senior backend-leaning Product Engineer to join our Product Engineering team in NYC. You’ll build APIs, SDKs, and dashboards that power customer experiences for leading brands. You'll own data models, backend services, and tooling while collaborating with product and other engineers.

Hybrid work with 3 days in NYC; compensation includes salary, equity and benefits. You’ll mentor engineers and help the team scale, with a focus on reliability, performance, and security as we