Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

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!

You will be building the most modern credit solution for Highnote. You have the opportunity to  build our application from the ground up (with a plan to scale up to 100x). The application will be solutioned and built for flexibility and scalability.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will work across the entire stack (our platform + our API built on GraphQL). This role will be 70% backend for implementing all solution requirements + 30% front end.

Our tech stack: Spring boot, Java, Spanner, GRPC, Proto, GCP, GraphQL

• Focus on full stack development (our platform + graphQL API)
• Building secure and compliant platform products that solve customer needs
• Writing high quality and robustly tested code, mostly in Java
• Understanding customer problems to build the right solutions
• Documenting your work to support our rapidly-scaling company
• Interfacing with a variety of the company’s domains to strengthen our platform

• 5+ years experience building production software systems
• 1+ year of graphQL
• Experience writing scalable, performant and maintainable code.
• Excitement about shipping customer centric software
• Experience with Java >= 8, JPA ORM mapping, experience with any RDBMS Database unit and integration testing
• Ability to work in a collaborative and team oriented environment.  
• Bonus: Cloud experience (GCP, AWS)
• Bonus: Experience in building scalable payments processing platforms.