Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Product)

Pinwheel; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid-first work model

Full medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Pinwheel is seeking a senior full-stack Product Engineer to join the Product Engineering team in New York. You will help build public APIs, SDKs, and dashboards, while collaborating closely with Product to evolve our platform and deliver maximum value for customers.

You’ll work on Bill Switch, API versioning, tax product enhancements, and customer dashboard integrations, while mentoring peers and improving code quality. Hybrid-first work model in NYC offers strong growth and impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building full-stack applications.
• Experience in collaborating across multiple teams and engineers.
• Expertise with modern back-end languages/frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django, Rails, Gin).
• Expertise with modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue).
• Python-based microservice stack experience; strong API design.

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand customer needs and design systems to solve them.
• Build, scale, and evolve data models, services, and APIs.
• Design and ship new functionality focusing on internal and customer-facing back-end APIs.
• Maintain and improve the Python-based microservice stack.
• Create and improve tooling, processes, and engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers and help the team grow.

Skills

FastAPI

Django

Rails

Gin

React

Vue

APIs

Data modeling

API design

Python

Full-stack development

Mentoring

Startup experience

Job description

• We’re hiring a senior full-stack Product Engineer for our Product Engineering team
• The PE team builds all the things our customers and their users use: public APIs, embedded SDKs, customer management dashboard, and more
• Our Product Engineering team is lean and works very closely with Product to ensure we’re evolving Pinwheel’s product in ways that bring maximum value to our customers
• We are a high-velocity team where we balance four main workstreams: support of customers, deliver the roadmap, proactively improve the product and keep-the-lights-on
• Here are some projects you might work on in your first six months:
• Help us build our Bill Switch product that helps our customers drive account primacy through migrating their users’ subscription spend to their new accounts
• Contribute to a new API version that improves our contracts and formalizes recent product direction in our platform’s code
• Help us firm up and improve our tax product for next tax season
• Clean up old code that no longer serves our current product direction and leave the codebase better than you found it
• Build a new customer dashboard API that aligns with our stack and opens up future expansion possibilities in customer dashboard functionality
• Build new integrations with banking platform partners and help us improve existing implementations to make them more effective

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand our customer needs and design systems to solve them
• Build, scale, and evolve the data models, services, and systems that power our APIs
• Design and ship impactful new functionality in our products, especially focused on our internal and customer-facing back-end 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

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Unlimited PTO
• Team building initiatives
• Free mental health support
• Pet-friendly and snack-stocked office
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Hybrid-first work model
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401K for retirement planning
• Mentorship opportunities
• Free Citibike membership

Qualifications

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