Highnote
Senior Core Services Engineer
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$170k-$230kDetected 48 days ago
JavaSpringBigQueryRedshiftAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesOAuthData EngineeringAgentic AICompensationResearchLeadership
About the role
- We've raised $145M+ and have grown our team to 140+ employees.
- We believe we're unlocking incredible opportunities that can change the future of payments, as long as we have the right people to make it happen.
- While some of us come from the fintech world, some of us don't.
Responsibilities
- Building secure and compliant platform products that solve customer needs
- Understanding customer problems to build the right solutions
- Documenting your work to support our rapidly-scaling company
- 12+ years experience building production software systems
- Experience building out common platform libraries such as logging, configuration, encryption, async etc
- We're a startup that allows for our employees to truly build from the ground up and impact every layer of our organization.
- We're backed by Oak HC/FT, Costanoa Ventures, Adams Street Partners, Westcap, and Pinegrove Venture Partners. Angel Investors include Bill Ready (CEO at Pinterest) and Renaud Laplanche (Co-Founder & CEO of Upgrade).
Requirements
- Experience with Java, Spring Boot/Spring Framework, GCP services, and understanding of OAuth
- Proficiency using AI-powered development tools (e.g., Claude Code) across the full software development lifecycle - including design, prototyping, development, testing, and iteration.
- Agentic AI experience
- Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
- Experience with Spring Boot, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Knowledge of gRCP and Protobuf
- Experience with distributed event system
- Experience with software security
- Experience with big data technologies such as BigQuery and RedShift
- Experience with building data pipelines for search platform
Compensation
- In compliance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the annual salary range for applicants is $170,000-$230,000.
Benefits
- Equity in Highnote
- Stipend to build out your home office; internet reimbursement
- At Highnote we have built a total rewards philosophy that includes fair, equitable, geo-based compensation that is performance and potential based.
- Our compensation packages are competitive based on robust market research and are a combination of a cash salary, equity, and benefits.
- Highnote benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- 100% healthcare coverage + 75% coverage for dependents
Company info
- What we are looking for
- We're small on hierarchy and big on growth. We're a flat organization that allows everyone to have direct exposure to our leadership team. We are looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity.
Visa & Work Authorization
- e do not discriminate based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by
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