PitchBook Data

Staff Software Architect

Seattle, Washington, United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 hours ago

JavaSpringAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesRESTLLMsAgentic AIAI OrchestrationExcelCommunicationCollaborationMentoringAdaptability

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.

Document architecture evolutions (current state, future state, phasing) and communicate architecture and elaborate with teams
Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and other internal stakeholders in an Agile environment
Provide technical guidance and perform architectural reviews with team members
Design and deliver on end-to-end initiatives with little to no guidance
Ensure qualities/non-functional requirements of the platforms and products are defined, measurable, and continuously evaluated to deliver the right product to our users
Implement well-designed, testable, and efficient code that meets product requirements, coding standards, performance, scalability, reliability, and the organization's goals and principles
We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things.
You will collaborate with external and internal stakeholders of different roles and backgrounds and who may have varying degrees of understanding of the domain.
Architect, design, develop, and maintain components of PitchBook's services including backend with aspects of front-end related to architecture (micro front-end patterns).

Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field
4+ years of experience with Java or a similar object-oriented language
2+ years of experience developing microservices
Experience working on middleware, platform, or system of systems
Experience with Agentic AI architecture: Proven track record of designing systems using LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent) for complex reasoning tasks
Experience designing standard interfaces and integrations with Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allow AI models and agents to securely and efficiently access structured and unstructured data
8+ years of experience in a Software Development or Engineering role with a Bachelor's Degree, 6+ years of experience in a Software Development or Engineering role with a Master's degree, or 3+ years of experience in a Software Development or Engineering role with a PhD
Experienced in Service-Oriented & Microservices Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Domain Driven Design (DDD), Clean Architecture, and Hexagonal Architecture
Fluent in identifying and applying architecture patterns and designing RESTful API
Experienced with web technologies and standards (e.g., JSON, JWT)
Experienced with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Experienced in Spring Boot/Spring Framework
Experienced with Container orchestration software (e.g., Kubernetes)

Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors

Architect, design, develop, and maintain components of PitchBook's services including backend with aspects of front-end related to architecture (micro front-end patterns). Hands-on development will be part of the responsibilities

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