Sr. C# Backend Software Engineer - Fintech Startup

Sr. C# Backend Software Engineer - Fintech Startup

Location: Most of the company's employees work remotely. You could either work remotely or in the company's small office in Palo Alto, CA.

The company's product is a platform that enables investors to discover and invest in high quality investments that currently are not very accessible for most people.

The company has just closed series B funding. It has about 65 employees and 30 engineers.

The company will pay up to $175k in salary plus equity which could be lucrative.

Job Responsibilities:

- Primarily using C# .NET.

- Working as part of an independent, cross-functional squad to deliver critical features for our platform.

- Building high-quality, scalable, and testable code that will help drive engineering maturity and efficiency

- Designing & implementing new features and endpoints in backend APIs.

- Designing & implementing schema changes to support new features.

- Participating in an Agile-based development environment.

Qualifications:

- Startup experience.

- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

- Expertise in object-oriented software engineering experience.

- Expertise in C#.

- Expertise with SQL-based databases (ideally Postgres).

- Understanding of how to design schemas that will result in performant applications (for example: when to add an index, and to which fields).

- Experience developing REST APIs.

- Proficiency with Git and version control systems.

Nice to Haves:

- ASP.NET Web API development experience.

- Understanding of basic ORM concepts (such as in Dapper, Entity Framework, etc).

- Familiarity with FluentMigrator.

- Experience with Docker and Docker Compose.

- Experience with AWS ECS/EKS.

About Skyrocket Ventures

Skyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for hundreds of high growth technology companies that range from industry leaders to top-tier startups. This opportunity is with one of our client companies for a full-time permanent hire. Please only apply if you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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