Pinnakl
C# Senior Backend Engineer for advanced Fintech product
Summary
Pinnakl is a SaaS company disrupting hedge fund software for 8 years with 100+ Wall Street clients. We're hiring a C# Senior Backend Engineer to build next-generation stock trading platform backend services. You'll work on real-time trading systems for sophisticated funds, focusing on schema design, API endpoints, and production support.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain backend services powering a large, data-heavy enterprise platform
- Implement personalized news notifications feature with subscription management and data provider connectivity
- Optimize performance of stock trading services through profiling and advanced caching techniques
- Enhance system observability across infrastructure with logging, tracing, and monitoring frameworks
- Integrate AI technologies for risk calculation and compliance control
- Modernize CRM system using microservice architecture based on Clean Architecture principles
- Write API endpoints, schemas, and data-handling functions
- Advise on product roadmap feasibility and implementation timelines
- Optimize applications for performance, accessibility, and security
Requirements
- 5+ years backend experience in C# / .NET
- Strong ASP.NET Core experience
- Unit testing in .NET
- SQL knowledge
- SOLID principles understanding
- Microservice architecture experience
- Nice to have: Clean Architecture principles, message buses (Kafka, Azure Service Bus), caching (Redis)
Conditions
Schedule: Full-time, 45-50 hours per week, most work wrapping by 7 PM local time, no side-freelancing
Benefits: Work with senior engineers, ship meaningful production systems used daily by Wall Street, direct impact on financial infrastructure, compensation grows with company, long-term team member stability
Expectations: Ownership over tickets, delivery-focused culture, AI-assisted development expected, critical thinking and proactive problem-solving required