Senior Backend Developer

Preqin is an award-winning, independent, research company providing data and intelligence to the financial industry. Investment professionals use Preqin’s online products to obtain key information for business-critical decision-making. Preqin’s clients include fund managers, legal firms, institutional investors, financial advisors and placement agents.

Primarily a data company; Preqin is also a fast-moving fintech with a strong growth record and a worldwide staff base. Owned by our founder, directors and employee shareholders, we care passionately about our customers, brand and the employees that make it all happen.

The Senior Backend Developer will be responsible for developing new features of Preqin Pro, our flagship product. From deploying workflows and automation to identify patterns in our data and develop detailed scoring and profiling, your work will have a direct impact on our business and benefit tens of thousands of customers across the world.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and develop our core web application using .NET Core exposing APIs for internal and external clients.
• Implement architecture and design patterns to help ensure that systems scale.
• Establish processes and best practices around development standards.
• Review product requirements in order to give development estimates and product feedback.
• Apply technical expertise to challenging architecture and design problems.

Key Requirements for this Role

• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience building enterprise-grade web application in an AGILE environment, using C# / .NET Core 2.0
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and SOLID principles.
• Extensive experience building Web APIs.
• Experience working with SQL Server, MongoDB and ElasticSearch.
• A proponent of continuous integration, unit testing, and automation
• Good to have: knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a good understanding of Web Standards, EventStore, OWASP security principles, and data encryption/security.
• Ability to work and communicate clearly and efficiently with team members, with a strong command of English both written and spoken.

Joining Preqin will give you a fantastic opportunity to work in the most innovative space in an already innovative fast-growing company, rapidly adding achievements to your portfolio and playing a pivotal role in the disruption of private investment markets.