Sr. Java Full Stack Engineer

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

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. We're 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 there's going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We're 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 other's 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!

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

Basic 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

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, eventu