Software Engineer (Mern) Jobs

Location: Remote (HQ in NY)

About Pinnacle:

Pinnacle (heypinnacle.com) is a Stanford GSB-founded, venture-backed startup disrupting the $30 billion dollar management development market.

With rapidly shifting labor market dynamics and hiring slowdowns, companies are turning inwards to maximize their team’s effectiveness. Better management is the key. It’s no surprise that 60% of Chief Human Resource Officers say management development is their top priority in 2023 (Gartner) – and now is the time to redefine this legacy function.

Pinnacle offers a unique, AI-powered solution that improves manager retention and productivity by providing personalized development tips and coaching in five minutes a day. Our software is designed to seamlessly integrate with Slack and Microsoft Teams, promoting continuous learning in the workplace. We’re doing for management development what Noom did for weight loss, Duolingo did for language acquisition, and Headspace did for meditation.

Our team has decades of experience in executive coaching, building and selling HR tech start-ups, and PhD-level expertise in AI.

Pinnacle is a startup with a small, agile engineering team that loves to focus on getting stuff done. We keep meetings and overhead to a minimum. We work through requirements as a team and strive to stay flexible so we can manage the unknown. We strive to deliver the proper balance of scope, time, and quality and take on the responsibility and accountability for those decisions. We ship to production continuously. We value empathy, servant leadership, and a growth mindset.

About the Role:

This role is a dedicated full-stack role on the engineering team at Pinnacle, focused on delivering our product to end users. The role is part of the team responsible for building and managing the web applications, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines for delivering our product experience to end-users. This includes responsibilities covering the full SDLC for APIs, data modeling / storage, asynchronous data solutions, internal and external systems integrations, and more. We currently don’t have a dedicated DevOps role, so the development team owns operational responsibility ourselves. As a result, DevOps experience is a big plus.

This role is active in development activities across the board, including product requirement participation, work breakdown, development planning, and more. We operate as a small team that covers a lot of ground, so flexibility and adaptability within the role is important. We know a lot about what we do, but we know there’s a lot that we don’t know (yet).

We operate as a single team with a common goal, and strive to keep collaboration and knowledge-sharing as a high priority. We all strive to make our customers successful. You will collaborate directly with our CTO.

About You:

You have:

• Worked with multiple persistence layers and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each
• Designed, implemented, tested, and supported production APIs consumed by multiple types of consumers (e.g. other services, SPA’s, mobile)
• A natural curiosity about and interest in technology that you haven’t worked with before, and aren’t afraid to jump in to deliver something using it
• Worked on small teams (and preferably at small companies or startups) where flexibility > process
• Worked iteratively through product requirements, coalescing the undefined to make it defined, working to make the unknowns known, and adjusting to changes discovered along the way
• Shipped code in a CI/CD environment, sometimes multiple times each week
• Learned that you never have all the answers but know how to ask questions, research, and experiment to find them
• Delivered production back-end code written in NodeJS / ES6
• Learned that asking for help from the team when you’re stuck is better than struggling through it alone
• Designed, built, delivered to, and managed cloud production infrastructure (GCP preferred)

Qualifications:

• Nice to have: Typescript, GraphQL, CSS3
• Required: Storage / persistence layers, preferably MongoDB, but other SQL/NoSQL is fine as well
• Experience with Agile methodologies and tools for issue management, VCS, deployment, and collaboration
• Nice to have: React / Redux, ES6
• Required: React, Nextjs
• Required: Cloud deployment experience: AWS / GCP (preferred) / Heroku, microservice and/or serverless architectures
• 2-5 years of front-end experience
• Backend experience
• Nice to have: Typescript, Python
• Required: NodeJS, ES6, Express / Koa
• At least 5+ years in back-end software development
• Nice to have: GraphQL
• Front-end experience
• Required: JWT, OAuth, or other security layers
• Nice to have: K8S, Docker

To Apply:

Ready to make a leap in your career and make a real difference? Send your resume and a brief introduction about why you think you’d be a fit to [email protected] with the subject line: “Pinnacle SWE 2023”. We can't wait to hear from you!