Senior Data Platform Engineer

Highnote was founded in 2020 by former executives from Braintree, PayPal, Lending Club, and Visa with the goal of simplifying payments for emerging enterprises with an all-in-one card issuance and full-stack acquiring platform. In other words, Highnote connects merchants and businesses to the most advanced virtual payments platform - the industry’s first built-for-purpose unified solution for virtual card issuing - extensible through developer friendly open APIs capable of handling the most complex payment processing business flows. Our mission is to help merchants and businesses grow by accelerating their digital transformation with innovative virtual payments products.

Since launching the company in October 2020, Highnote has raised over $90m in funding from Oak HC/FT, Costanoa Ventures, and XYZ Ventures (among others) to help accelerate their time to market and growth. Also invested in Highnote is Bill Ready (current CEO at Pinterest, and former President of Commerce at Google along with former COO of Paypal, and CEO of Braintree and Venmo) and Renaud Laplanche (Co-Founder & CEO of Upgrade, and former Co-Founder & CEO of Lending Club.)

Highnote is headquartered in San Francisco and currently has remote team members in Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and New York City. The team is currently 95+ people and growing!

The Data Platform Team is part of the Data Organization and is responsible for designing and building modern scalable, secure and reliable data platforms and data pipelines. With the data platforms, we will be able to serve the product/customer data needs, improve operational efficiency and increase revenue.

• Building secure and scalable data platforms that support our product/customer needs and power data driven decision making. 
• Writing high quality and robustly tested code, mostly in Java and Python
• Understanding business/data needs and growth to build the right solutions
• Documenting your work to support our rapidly-scaling company
• Interfacing with internal business stakeholders and technology partners to support day to day operations and create new data products

• 6+ years experience building high volume and low latency data platform and data pipelines using distributed event technology, e.g. Pubsub, Kafka, Kinesis etc, and data storage system, e.g. Spanner/Postgres, BigQuery, Cassandra, data lakes etc
• Able to model and design modern data structures in SQL/NoSQL databases
• A history of writing scalable, performant and maintainable code. 
• Experience with Java >= 11 or Python >= 3.7

• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Able to model and design modern data structured in data lakes and data warehouses
• A background in the fin-tech space

• Highnote is an early stage company, the team is hands on and everyone is an individual contributor 
• We are light on meetings and leave your calendar open to build software
• We’re excited about the varied backgrounds and expertise team members bring and create space for ideas from everyone
• Highnote is a growing company, we started in Fall 2020 and the team is growing quickly
• Our technology stack is Java on the backend and React/Typescript on the frontend

Highnote is a diverse and inclusive company committed to growing a diverse and inclusive team. We 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 differences.