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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.

We’re hiring a world-class Engineer

We’re seeking exceptionally skilled and technically hands-on full-stack Software Engineers to join our Product Engineering team and play a pivotal role in 0→1 building. You’ll be responsible for designing, building, and scaling Pinwheel’s most critical products, including Direct Deposit Switch, Income & Employment Verification, and Bill Navigator.

You’ll be joining a team of engineers known for their unusually high output, deep technical expertise, and extreme ownership mentality. We value engineering craftsmanship just as much as driving meaningful business impact.

We offer top-of-market compensation to attract top-of-market talent. If you’re one of the best engineers you know—and you’re driven to build transformative products alongside others who operate at that level—this is your team.

What will you do?

  • Ship production code daily — you’ll actively design, build, and ship features across our mobile, frontend, and backend stack as we bring innovative new products to market while growing our core payroll connectivity products and expanding our network through partnerships with banking platforms and payroll companies.
  • Build with velocity and clarity — join an environment where engineers work quickly, communicate crisply, and take full ownership.
  • Own critical product and business outcomes — collaborate with Product to shape and deliver major initiatives that drive the business and enable us to exceed key revenue and other growth goals. Care deeply about effectively solving problems for our customers and their consumer end users.
  • Prioritize for leverage — identify and deliver the work that meaningfully moves the needle on the above.
  • Maintain engineering excellence — keep raising our high bar for code quality, system performance, security, and reliability.
  • Join a powerhouse team of exceptional engineers — learn from and mentor your peers, other high-performing engineers with growth mindsets who expect rigor, autonomy, and impact.
  • Help build and grow the team — participate in recruiting and interviewing other A+ engineers who elevate the team’s standards and output.

What qualifications are necessary?

  • You’re a force multiplier — you write production-grade code fast, and make everyone around you better. You’re already months if not years into leveraging AI to do the most productive work of your career.
  • 5+ years of experience building and maintaining full stack applications, spanning data design, application logic, and user experiences. You’re able to design systems and evaluate tradeoffs in scalability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and speed to market.
  • You’ve shipped real products — and can explain how they moved the needle for your business. You have significant experience with modern backend frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django, Rails, Gin) and frontend frameworks (e.g. React).
  • You’re hungry for ownership and accountability — you don’t wait for permission. You act.
  • You’re a clear communicator — you write and speak with clarity and precision for maximum impact.
  • You’re driven to excellence - you hold yourself and others to elite standards. You’re eager to learn and leverage new technology as our business evolves.
  • You’re excited to work onsite in NYC 3 days a week to move fast, collaborate deeply, and build trust face-to-face.
  • You have the necessary mentality and skills to win
    • You are known amongst your friends as someone who is relentless in your pursuit of your goals and equally resourceful in achieving them, often finding the clever, non-obvious solution to any given problem
    • You thrive in situations where the answer is unclear, things aren’t working right, and the path to achieving success seems really hard because you take pride in overcoming hard things
    • You are able to quickly synthesize a lot of information and data and come up with an action plan to direct yourself and those around you to success
    • You regularly spend time figuring out how to improve yourself and your skills in your personal pursuit of greatness, however you define it
    • Whenever you encounter a problem, you dig unreasonably deep to figure out the underlying root causes and mechanics before you move towards a solution

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!

Benefits included:

  • Great compensation & equity packages
  • Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Life & short-term disability insurance
  • Unlimited vacation
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401K for retirement planning
  • Mentorship opportunities
  • Free Citibike membership
  • Pet friendly offices and Zoom spaces

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 $230,000 - $280,000 base. The equity package will be significant.

Pinwheel is an equal opportunity employer.

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