Senior Java Backend Engineer - Scale Big Data & Pipelines

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Annual educational stipend

Paid sabbatical program after four yrs

Monthly transportation stipend

Company-wide events

Job summary

PitchBook, a Morningstar company, seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer for the Data Platform team to design and build backend systems processing billions of records across products. You will own end-to-end pieces of a high-scale distributed platform from design to production.

You will operate with autonomy on hard problems, framing ambiguity into concrete plans, writing code that others learn from, and guiding engineers toward robust solutions.

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 development

Spring Boot

Backend systems

Microservices

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Unit and integration testing

AI/LLM awareness

Agile methodologies

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Kafka

SQL

Job description

PitchBook, a Morningstar company, seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer for the Data Platform team to design and build backend systems processing billions of records across products. You will own end-to-end pieces of a high-scale distributed platform from design to production.

You will operate with autonomy on hard problems, framing ambiguity into concrete plans, writing code that others learn from, and guiding engineers toward robust solutions.