Position: .Net developer
Company: Pinnakl
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

Pinnakl offers state of the art trading and portfolio management SaaS to hedge funds (investment management domain). We have brought an iPhone to a market that only knew flip phones. We have have had phenomenal growth over the last 15 months with large name-brand hedge funds signing up with us. It's a an exciting time and we are looking for a senior backend engineer to be the backbone of the our portfolio of products. Pinnakl's backend is in .NET Core that utilizes our own backend query language similar to GraphQL with the front end in Angular. We engineer applications that bring innovation to trading and are highly responsive, robust, and have low latency.

You would be responsible for:

Scoping, architecting, modeling and implementing multiple new product features as you collaborating with front end engineers, UX designers, and product managers.
Getting your hands dirty, writing API endpoints, schemas, data-handling functions, and other code.
Advising and guiding the evolution of our product roadmap, providing feedback on feasibility and estimated timelines for new feature development.
Optimizing deployments to Microsoft Azure to allow Pinnakl to offer high performance and low latency to its end users.
Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
What we are looking for.
Product Development - In addition to writing quality software, you also enjoy the other aspects of building a new company: designing features, making good product decisions, programming at all levels of the stack, and wearing many hats.
Performance Excellence: You consider yourself in the top 10% of your peers in terms of intellect and technical capabilities.
We are looking for strong engineers. Experience in finance is not required.
6+ years of strong experience in .NET (including experience in .NET Core) and writing SQL queries (and not just an ORM for data access layer)
Experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems (caching, messaging, asynchronicity, ETL, etc) using C#.

Why you should care?

Flexible timings. Friendly team atmosphere. Flat hierarchy. No office politics.
Risk / reward - Startups are risky because 9 out of 10 fail. This is a golden opportunity to join a young company that is past its product market fit and has made it! But there is still a lot of growth yet to happen for the company and for you. Little risk, high reward.
Impact - We are the Tesla to the legacy car market. Your work contributes to building a new foundation of trading software in capital markets.
Onsite - Opportunity to move to US
Finance - Hedge funds are the very top of capital markets. Each of our customers is using Pinnakl to trade 100s of millions of dollars of assets in various financial products. You are at the forefront of trading finance as much as its possible.
Learning - Get in-depth learning of latest technologies

Why you should not care?

Results oriented culture - You are not going to need to work 12 hours a day. We are looking for people who deliver results and not think of their role as 9-5. Great products are built when people own things and want to see them through, rain or shine.
Intensity - We are a young company with 15 people, so if you looking for an established companies rich of resources, this role isn’t for you.