Senior Backend Engineer (AI Projects)

Company: Pinwheel
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  • 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
  • Ou’ll identify categories of recurring problems, design systems that eliminate them, and lead the execution alongside junior and mid-level engineers
  • 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; make them measurably more productive through code review, design feedback, and the systems you build
  • Identify and eliminate classes of problems rather than patching individual one off bugs
  • Set technical direction in ambiguous problem spaces
  • Collaborate closely with IE and adjacent teams to ensure platform primitives meet real consumer needs

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
  • AI-forward thinking: you have set yourself apart from others in willingness to drive AI projects forward
  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Strong systems design: your designs get adopted by peers; you can defend tradeoffs and anticipate failure modes
  • Demonstrated autonomous project leadership: examples of owning ambiguous, multi-quarter projects from idea to business outcomes
  • Computer Science degree or comparable experience
  • Integrations experience: you’ve built against third-party APIs, dealt with auth flows, rate limits, and the operational reality of depending on external systems
  • Browser automation experience (Selenium, CDP, Playwright): useful context for our integration surface
  • Browser fingerprinting / detection work
  • Experience designing and operating services that handle concurrency, failure modes, and meaningful scale
  • Experience with backend platform / infrastructure: services, queues, data pipelines, async processing
  • Experience working in Fintech or comparable regulatory environment
  • Expertise in Python
  • Track record of reducing oncall noise

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Posted: September 20th, 2026