Senior Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Infra & Integrations

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

Benefits offered by this job

Compensation & equity

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Disability insurance

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

401K retirement plan

Citibike membership

Pet-friendly offices

Job summary

Pinwheel is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to own platform-level problem spaces end-to-end, raise the technical bar, and boost the Integrations Engineering team's productivity. The role emphasizes designing systems that reduce recurring issues and leading execution with junior and mid-level engineers.

Pinwheel operates in a hybrid environment with a 3-day in-office requirement at our NYC headquarters near Union Square.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• CS degree or comparable experience.
• Experience designing and operating services with concurrency, failure modes, and meaningful scale.
• Experience with backend platform / infrastructure: services, queues, data pipelines, async processing.
• Strong systems design: designs adopted by peers, defend tradeoffs, anticipate failures.
• Demonstrated autonomous project leadership: owning ambiguous, multi-quarter projects.

Responsibilities

• 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; improve productivity through code review and design feedback.
• Identify and eliminate classes of problems rather than patching individual bugs.
• Set technical direction in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Collaborate with IE and adjacent teams to ensure platform primitives meet real consumer needs.

Skills

Backend engineering

Systems design

Autonomous leadership

AI-forward thinking

Python

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

APIs integration

Async data pipelines

Job description

Pinwheel is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to own platform-level problem spaces end-to-end, raise the technical bar, and boost the Integrations Engineering team's productivity. The role emphasizes designing systems that reduce recurring issues and leading execution with junior and mid-level engineers.

Pinwheel operates in a hybrid environment with a 3-day in-office requirement at our NYC headquarters near Union Square.