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Lead Software Development Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States · Senior

No sponsorshipDetected 23 hours ago
JavaDistributed SystemsCode ReviewGitPostgreSQLElasticsearchAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsAPI DevelopmentKafkaData EngineeringExcelLeadershipCollaborationMentoring

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 thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Manage, mentor, and lead a small team of software engineers
  • Lead system design for new platform capabilities: ingestion pipelines, entity resolution, enrichment workflows, search indexing strategies
  • Own the technical quality of the team's output: code review, architecture decisions, performance, reliability, observability
  • Collaborate directly with the EM, product, and partner teams on requirements and technical direction
  • Mentor engineers on the team through code, design discussions, and direct pairing
  • Identify and drive down technical debt that meaningfully limits velocity or reliability
  • Own services and applications and related infrastructure, and ultimately responsible for the services' quality, stability, reliability, and performance in production
  • Own estimations of Features and Releases in the Team and can explain them to peer functions and stakeholders
  • Use cloud technology to create robust and scalable software systems

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field
  • Track record of technical leadership in a small, high-ownership team - without needing a large org around you to get things done
  • 7+ years of backend software engineering, predominantly in Java on production systems at scale
  • Deep experience with distributed data pipelines and streaming systems - Kafka or equivalent
  • Strong hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or comparable search/indexing platforms
  • Solid PostgreSQL or relational DB expertise at meaningful data volumes
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future
  • If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, PitchBook is the place for you.
  • Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in production

Nice to have

  • Experience with large-scale data ingestion, transformation, or enrichment systems - entity resolution, deduplication, or data quality pipelines are a strong plus
  • Cloud infrastructure experience (GCP preferred, AWS acceptable)

Compensation

  • Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook:

Company info

  • Assess tradeoffs quickly and pivot when needed - whether that's a proof-of-concept in a day or a multi-week pipeline refactor
  • Responsible for optimal engineering resources allocation and work distribution within the Team to meet the sprint and release goals
  • Ensure that Releases & Features meet PB Engineering (Architecture, Quality, Reliability, etc.) standards and guidelines
  • Helping establish best practices around software development, microservices, and devops
  • Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
  • Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested
  • Evangelizes better technical practices, and continually raises the bar for technical excellence across the company

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future
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