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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend Engineer, Integrations Platform - **Company:** PINWHEEL, INC. - **Location:** New York, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $115,000.0 - $140,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Code Review, Data Centers, Multi-Factor Authentication, Amazon DynamoDB, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), OAuth, OpenID, Redis, Azure Active Directory, Reverse Engineering, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Selenium, Systems Integration, Okta, Captcha, Backend, Fastapi, Low Latency, Playwright, Celery, Grpc - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/backend-engineer-integrations-platform-pinwheel-3-8005259 ## About the Role * 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 * AI-enhanced development: you've meaningfully integrated AI-assisted engineering (Claude Code, Copilot, agentic tooling) into your workflow and have opinions about where it helps vs. hurts * Comfort with concurrency and async patterns such as threads, gevents / greenlets, async / await, or equivalent ## Description * Own platform projects end-to-end, from scoping and design review through shipping and operation * Scraping Engineering & Research Heavy Projects: You've worked on reverse engineering problems such as integrations, scrapers, automation, or platform work against systems that are moving targets. Familiar with the rhythm of "ship a fix, monitor for changes, ship the next fix." * Ship reliability and performance improvements to shared infrastructure (proxy management, browser fleet, on-prem infra, session/state management, latency-sensitive AWS code paths) * Raise the floor for Integration Engineers through shared libraries, custom lint rules, internal tooling, and code review that catches systemic issues before they ship * Apply AI-assisted workflows thoughtfully, both to your own work and to the tooling other engineers use * Operate the platform in production: participate in the on-call rotation, triage incidents, write postmortems, and ship fixes that prevent recurrence * Stay on top of dependency and security hygiene, including CodeQL findings, CVE remediation, TLS/crypto updates, * 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 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 $115,000-$140,000 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. 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