Sr. Backend Engineer, AI Projects

Back to jobs New Sr. Backend Engineer, AI Projects New York, NY Pinwheel - Building the future of financial services in partnership with the biggest brands “I love my banking app!” said no one, ever. Pinwheel is on a mission to change that. We believe banks and financial service providers represent the greatest opportunity to build 10x better experiences, especially in the AI age. We’re building the next generation of financial products alongside some of the biggest names in the market including Robinhood, DoorDash, Chime, Cash App, Credit Karma, American Express, Discover, Intuit, Acorns, Visa and more. If you’re excited by the idea of having your work touch and impact the lives of hundreds of millions of consumers, Pinwheel is the place for you. If you get stoked about building products alongside the biggest brands in the world, Pinwheel is the place for you. If you want to join a scrappy, hustling team that is obsessed with defining the future of financial services, Pinwheel is the place for you! Pinwheel has raised $77M from top-tier investors such as Coatue, Notable, First Round, Upfront, Primary, American Express, Franklin Templeton, Indeed, Semper Virens and more. **This role is hybrid with 3 days a week in our NYC office.** Who are we looking for? Pinwheel's Integrations Platform (IP) team builds the services, primitives, and tooling that make 1800+ integrations work at scale — proxy management, browser automation, identity flows, session handling, and the runtime that every Integrations Engineer (IE) builds on top of. We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to own AI-driven, platform-level problem spaces end-to-end, raise the technical bar, and make the Integrations Engineering team measurably more productive. You'll identify categories of recurring problems, design systems that eliminate them, and lead the execution alongside junior and mid-level engineers. Pinwheel is a hybrid environment, with a 3-day in-office requirement here in our NYC headquarters, near Union Square. What will you do? Own platform initiatives end-to-end: scope, design, build, ship, and maintainDrive systems design for new integration infrastructure, including services, queues, data pipelines, async workflowsLead projects staffed with junior and mid-level engineers; make them measurably more productive through code review, design feedback, and the systems you buildIdentify and eliminate classes of problems rather than patching individual one off bugsSet technical direction in ambiguous problem spacesCollaborate closely with IE and adjacent teams to ensure platform primitives meet real consumer needs What qualifications are necessary? 5+ years of backend engineering experienceComputer Science degree or comparable experienceAI-forward thinking: you have set yourself apart from others in willingness to drive AI projects forwardStrong systems design: your designs get adopted by peers; you can defend tradeoffs and anticipate failure modesDemonstrated autonomous project leadership: examples of owning ambiguous, multi-quarter projects from idea to business outcomes Nice To Haves Integrations experience: you've built against third-party APIs, dealt with auth flows, rate limits, and the operational reality of depending on external systemsBrowser automation experience (Selenium, CDP, Playwright): useful context for our integration surfaceBrowser fingerprinting / detection workExperience designing and operating services that handle concurrency, failure modes, and meaningful scaleExperience with backend platform / infrastructure: services, queues, data pipelines, async processingExpertise in PythonExperience working in Fintech or comparable regulatory environmentTrack record of reducing oncall noise 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 $160,000 - $200,000 base. Why join Pinwheel? 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! 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