Senior Java Backend Engineer - Data Platform

PitchBook Data; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical wellness incentives

Life insurance

Sabbatical after 4 years

Family and paternity leave

Educational stipend

Tuition reimbursement

CFA exam stipend

Training programs

Employee assistance program

Vacation and sick days

Matching gifts program

Employee resource groups

Dependent Care FSA

Employee referral bonus program

Stock program

Transportation stipend

Job summary

PitchBook Data, a Morningstar company, is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Data Platform team to design and build backend systems that ingest, correlate, enrich, and serve billions of records across PitchBook's customer-facing products.

You will own meaningful pieces of a complex, high-scale distributed platform end-to-end, operate with autonomy, and contribute to architecture decisions while collaborating with product, data science, and engineering partners in an Agile

Qualifications

• Bachelor's 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

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

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Kafka

AWS/GCP

Unit testing

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

AWS

GCP

Job description

PitchBook Data, a Morningstar company, is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Data Platform team to design and build backend systems that ingest, correlate, enrich, and serve billions of records across PitchBook's customer-facing products.

You will own meaningful pieces of a complex, high-scale distributed platform end-to-end, operate with autonomy, and contribute to architecture decisions while collaborating with product, data science, and engineering partners in an Agile