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# Backend Engineer to own AI-driven

- **Company:** PINWHEEL, INC.
- **Location:** New York, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Code Review, Python (Programming Language), Selenium, Systems Integration, Concurrency, Backend, Information Technology, Playwright, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/sr-backend-engineer-ai-projects-pinwheel-3-10004528

## About the Role

* 5+ years of backend engineering experience
 * Computer Science degree or comparable experience
 * AI-forward thinking: you have set yourself apart from others in willingness to drive AI projects forward
 * 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

Nice to haves:

 * 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
 * Expertise in Python
 * Experience working in Fintech or comparable regulatory environment
 * Track record of reducing oncall noise

## Description

* 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


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