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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Product Engineer, Backend - **Company:** PINWHEEL, INC. - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $190,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Business Logic, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), Web Application Frameworks, ReactJS, Backend, Fastapi, Vue.js, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Programming Languages - **Published:** July 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=51610fbae6d5ed76 ## About the Role * 5+ years of experience building and maintaining back-end or full-stack applications, specifically with data modeling, application logic, and API design * Prior experience working at an early-stage startup or small tech company * Deep expertise with modern back-end languages/frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django, Rails, Gin) * Working experience with modern frontend web frameworks (React, Vue, etc.) * Played key implementation roles in projects with multiple teams and engineers * Excited by working closely with customers * Responsibly uses AI on top of fundamental skills, doesn't replace them * Maintains a high bar for technical quality and continues to level up, You like working in a small team - Pinwheel is a nimble organization where every person has a meaningful impact on the company's future. You prioritize a strong engineering culture - We're trying to build a best-in-class engineering culture that builds a great product, cares about reliability and uptime, and is always improving. You take pride in your work - We want you to be proud of the work you accomplish at Pinwheel and happy to share it with others. And when it's time for you to move on from Pinwheel, we want the work you did here to make your resume stronger: that's how you know you did something worthwhile. ## Description We're hiring a mid-to-senior backend-leaning Product Engineer for our Product Engineering team. The PE team builds all the things our customers and their users use: public APIs, embedded SDKs, customer management dashboard, and more. Our Product Engineering team is lean and works very closely with Product to ensure we're evolving Pinwheel's product in ways that bring maximum value to our customers. We are a high-velocity team where we balance four main workstreams: support of customers, deliver the roadmap, proactively improve the product and keep-the-lights-on. What will you do? Here are some projects you might work on in your first six months: * Help us build our Bill Switch product that helps our customers drive account primacy through migrating their users' subscription spend to their new accounts * Contribute to a new API version that improves our contracts and formalizes recent product direction in our platform's code * Help us firm up and improve our tax product for next tax season * Clean up old code that no longer serves our current product direction and leave the codebase better than you found it * Build a new customer dashboard API that aligns with our stack and opens up future expansion possibilities in customer dashboard functionality * Build new integrations with banking platform partners and help us improve existing implementations to make them more effective In general, your responsibilities in this role would include: * Deeply understand our customer needs and design systems to solve them * Build, scale, and evolve the data models, services, and systems that power our APIs * Design and ship impactful new functionality in our products, especially focused on our internal and customer-facing back-end APIs * Maintain and improve our Python-based microservice stack * Create and improve tooling, processes, and engineering standards across the team * Mentor engineers and help the team grow ## Related Videos - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Lessons learned from building a thriving Vue.js SaaS application](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1666-lessons-learned-from-building-a-thriving-vue-js-saas-application) - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! : Getting Started with Cypress in ReactJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/282-watch-tests-go-brrrr-getting-started-with-cypress-in-reactjs) - [Meet Your New BFF: Backend to Frontend without the Duct Tape](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/682-meet-your-new-bff-backend-to-frontend-without-the-duct-tape) - [Building an agentic software factory: How we rebuilt product development at Pipedrive](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100261-building-an-agentic-software-factory-how-we-rebuilt-product-development-at-pipedrive) ## Related Articles - [The 7 Most Popular Backend Frameworks for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/403-the-7-most-popular-backend-frameworks-for-developers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai) - [What’s the Difference Between Frontend and Backend Development?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/240-what-s-the-difference-between-frontend-and-backend-development) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers)