Sr. Software Development Engineer

At PitchBook a Morningstar company we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate evolve and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. Were deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement energy and fun that reverberates throughout the company.

Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means theres going to be some ambiguity along the way but we excel when we challenge ourselves. Were willing to take risks fail fast and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence.

If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done PitchBook is the place for you.

About the Role:

As a member of the Product and Engineering team at PitchBook you will be part of a team of big thinkers innovators and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and our company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation.

We know that greatness is achieved through collaboration and diverse points of view so we work closely with partners around the globe. As a team we assume positive intent in each others words and actions value constructive discussions and foster a respectful working environment built on integrity growth and business value. We invest heavily in our people who are eager to learn and constantly improve. Join our team and grow with us!

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Data Platform team you will design and build the backend systems that ingest correlate enrich and serve billions of records across PitchBooks customer-facing products. You will own meaningful pieces of a complex high-scale distributed platform end-to-end from design through production and be a trusted technical voice on the team.

You have deep enough experience to operate with autonomy on hard problems break down ambiguity into concrete engineering plans and deliver without hand-holding. You know when to move fast and when to slow down and get the design right. You bring opinions to technical discussions write code that others learn from and actively make the engineers around you better.

This is a backend-heavy hands-on role. The problems are data problems: scale correctness latency and quality across a pipeline that processes billions of records from multiple external sources.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Design implement and maintain backend services and data pipelines that ingest transform enrich and index large-scale company and person data
• Own features and system components end-to-end: requirements through design implementation testing and production support
• Write well-designed testable and efficient code that meets performance scalability and reliability standards
• Contribute to architecture and technical design discussions; identify tradeoffs and advocate for sound engineering decisions
• Perform code reviews and provide meaningful technical feedback to peers
• Support production systems deployments troubleshooting and incident response
• Apply AI tooling to improve your own development testing and delivery efficiency; experiment with LLM-powered capabilities where relevant to the platform
• Collaborate with engineers product managers and data science partners in an Agile environment
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

Skills and Qualifications:

Basic Qaulifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or a similar field
• 5 years of software engineering experience predominantly in backend systems
• 5 years of Java development experience including production microservices
• 4 years with Spring Boot / Spring Framework
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future
• Must be able to work onsite in Seattle.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience with Kafka or comparable streaming/messaging platforms
• Solid experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases at meaningful data volumes
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or comparable search and indexing platforms
• Familiarity with large-scale data ingestion transformation or enrichment pipelines entity resolution deduplication or data quality work is a strong plus
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes) in production environments
• Experience with AWS and/or GCP
• Proficient in RESTful API design
• Experience with unit and integration testing; strong belief in test coverage as a quality bar
• Comfortable working with distributed systems concepts: fault tolerance eventual consistency backpressure at-least-once delivery
• Familiarity with domain-driven design and service-oriented architecture patterns
• Literate in the AI/LLM space able to evaluate tools run experiments and apply them pragmatically without waiting to be told to
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to articulate technical decisions clearly to peers and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits Compensation at PitchBook:

Physical Health

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Additional medical wellness incentives
• STD LTD AD&D and life insurance

Emotional Health

• Paid sabbatical program after four years
• Paid family and paternity leave
• Annual educational stipend
• Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement
• CFA exam stipend
• Robust training programs on industry and soft skills
• Employee assistance program
• Generous allotment of vacation days sick days and volunteer days

Social Health

• Matching gifts program
• Employee resource groups
• Subsidized emergency childcare
• Dependent Care FSA
• Company-wide events
• Employee referral bonus program
• Quarterly team building events

Financial Health

• 401k match
• Shared ownership employee stock program
• Monthly transportation stipend

*Please be aware the above PitchBook benefit and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of your employment.

Compensation

• Annual base salary: $175000-$215000
• Target annual bonus percentage: 10%

Working Conditions:

At the heart of our company is a belief in the power of in-person collaboration. Being together in the office fuels our creativity strengthens our connections and drives the innovation that sets us apart. Our culture is built on spontaneous momentsthose hallway conversations whiteboard brainstorms and shared celebrations in each of our global officesthat simply cant be replicated remotely. This role is expected to be in the office 5 days a week.

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.

We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at PitchBook.

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