Software Engineer

### Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining back-end or full-stack applications: 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)
- At least some experience working with modern frontend web frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)
- Prior experience working on API-based products is a big plus
- Played key implementation roles in projects with multiple teams and engineers
- Desire to learn new systems and technology as our business evolves
- Ability to design systems and evaluate the tradeoffs in scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability
- Passion for working closely with customers
- Creativity, empathy, and a drive for continuous improvement

### What the job involves
- Pinwheel is looking for a creative product-focused engineer that craves autonomy and impact in their role to work across Pinwheel’s entire customer-facing stack
- Product Engineering is at the heart of what we do here, and this role will help select and lead impactful projects that touch the surfaces our customers use every day
- You’ll work on a nimble team, working directly with cross-functional stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design, to execute this mission-critical work
- You’ll focus mostly on back-end engineering work (web-based microservices, customer-facing APIs), with some supporting front-end engineering work as well
- Finally, you’ll join a team known for high-velocity, high-quality output and contribute to leveling up that team through mentorship and continuous improvement of our processes and standards
- 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
- Support (and at times lead) the development of new products in the Pinwheel ecosystem, balancing high product velocity with quality and reliability
- Contribute to iterative technical quality: we pay down tech debt while we’re working on new projects and expect you to be a leader in the responsible pay-down of tech debt
- Create and improve tooling, processes, and engineering standards across the team
- Mentor engineers and help the team grow

### Benefits
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401K for retirement planning
- Paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Mentorship opportunities
- Free Citibike membership
- Team building initiatives
- Free mental health support
- Pet-friendly and snack-stocked office
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Hybrid-first work model