Lead Java Full-Stack Engineer, Data Platform

PitchBook; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

401k match

Company-wide events

Monthly transportation stipend

Stock option / Shared ownership

Job summary

PitchBook, a Morningstar company, seeks a Lead Software Development Engineer to own the Frontier Data Platform. You will design, build, and own ingestion pipelines, enrichment workflows, and search-ready data powering customer-facing products.

This hands-on role demands writing production code daily and mentoring a small engineering team. You will lead architecture decisions, ensure reliability, and collaborate with product and partner teams to drive features from concept to production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field.
• Proven technical leadership in a small, high-ownership team.
• 7+ years of backend software engineering in Java on production systems.
• Cloud infrastructure experience (GCP preferred, AWS acceptable).
• Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• Onsite work in Seattle is required.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and lead a small team of software engineers.
• Write production-grade backend code daily — services, pipelines, APIs.
• Lead system design for ingestion pipelines, entity resolution, enrichment workflows.
• Own technical quality: code review, architecture decisions, performance, reliability.
• Collaborate with EM, product, and partner teams on requirements.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing.
• Drive down technical debt and ensure production stability.

Skills

Technical leadership

Java backend

System design

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS

Tools

Elasticsearch

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

PitchBook, a Morningstar company, seeks a Lead Software Development Engineer to own the Frontier Data Platform. You will design, build, and own ingestion pipelines, enrichment workflows, and search-ready data powering customer-facing products.

This hands-on role demands writing production code daily and mentoring a small engineering team. You will lead architecture decisions, ensure reliability, and collaborate with product and partner teams to drive features from concept to production.