Backend Engineer, Integrations Platform
Pinwheel · New York, NY
Posted about 3 months ago · $115,000-$140,000
or apply directly on Pinwheel's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Pinwheel's roles stay open a median of 78 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 100% of Pinwheel's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Pinwheel
- high 4 stale, 0 reposted of 7 open
- Hiring momentum
- 11 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Pinwheel's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Pinwheel.
About this role
As a Backend Engineer on the Integrations Platform team at Pinwheel, you will be responsible for owning platform projects from design to operation, focusing on reliability and performance improvements for shared infrastructure. Your work will involve production operations, incident response, and enhancing integration tools, while also applying AI-assisted workflows to improve engineering processes. This role requires hands-on development and collaboration within a small, dynamic team.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Pinwheel as an employer.
What you need
- 3-5 years of backend integrations engineering experience building production services
- Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
- Strong Python skills (or comparable language with a clear path to ramping on Python 3.10+)
- Production operations experience: you've been on an on-call rotation, debugged real incidents, and shipped fixes under time pressure
- Working knowledge of AWS. Experience with one of DynamoDB, S3, IAM, ECR, and the operational instincts that come with it (latency, retries, throttling)
- Possess solid systems-design fundamentals. You can scope a small service, reason about failure modes, and defend tradeoffs in design review
Nice to have
- Browser automation: Selenium, CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol), Playwright
- Browser fingerprinting work: TLS fingerprinting (JA3), header / User-Agent analysis, captcha challenges (Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, Arkose), residential or datacenter proxy management
- Identity protocols at a working level: OAuth2, SAML, OIDC, MFA orchestration (Okta, Microsoft Entra, PingOne, Duo, ID.me)
- FastAPI, Redis, Celery, gRPC in production
- Fintech, payroll, or other regulated environments
What you get
- Great compensation & equity packages
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Life & short-term disability insurance
- Flexible PTO policy that prioritizes recharge and balance
- Paid parental leave
- 401K for retirement planning
Worth weighing
- This role is hybrid with a 3-day in-office requirement in NYC.
- The position does not offer visa sponsorship now or in the future.
- The expected cash salary range is $115,000-$140,000 base, which may be competitive but should be considered in the context of the overall compensation package.
Summarised from Pinwheel's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Pinwheel on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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