Senior Java Backend Engineer — Microservices & Data

pitchbookdata; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

PitchBook, a Morningstar company, is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to help design, implement, and maintain large-scale data pipelines and backend services. You will own features end-to-end from requirements to production support, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product and engineering teams, applying AI tooling to improve development processes, and contributing to architectural discussions.

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 visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and data pipelines ingesting large-scale company and person data.
• Own features end-to-end: requirements through design, implementation, testing, and production support.
• Write well-designed, testable code meeting performance, scalability, and reliability standards.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design discussions; advocate for sound engineering decisions.
• Perform code reviews and provide feedback to peers.
• Support production systems - deployments, troubleshooting, and incident response.
• Apply AI tooling to improve development, testing, and delivery efficiency; explore LLM-powered capabilities where relevant.

Skills

Java development

Spring Boot/Spring Framework

Kafka

RESTful API design

Unit testing & integration testing

Distributed systems concepts

AWS and/or GCP

Docker/Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

Tools

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Job description

PitchBook, a Morningstar company, is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to help design, implement, and maintain large-scale data pipelines and backend services. You will own features end-to-end from requirements to production support, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product and engineering teams, applying AI tooling to improve development processes, and contributing to architectural discussions.