Sr. Software Development Engineer, Platform

About the Role:

As a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE) within the Product organization, you will be responsible for delivering the next suite of tools and services that empower the PitchBook platform SDEs. You will be essential in helping to build exceptional solutions relied upon and used by more than a hundred PitchBook SDEs every day.

The team will rely on your complete knowledge and full understanding of the team’s business domain to help shape principles and practices. With your strong analytical skills, you’ll be able to break down abstract and complex problems into smaller problems. You will be expected to devise solutions based on limited information and precedent to find creative ways to tackle challenges. It is essential that you will be able to interpret, assess and resolve a wide range of issues and be able to select the right course of action.

You will collaborate with external and internal stakeholders of different roles and backgrounds, who may have varying degrees of understanding of the domain. You may need to adapt your style of communication based on the audience you are interacting with and will be relied on to influence decisions to build optimal solutions to complex challenges. Additionally, as an experienced member of the team, you will have the opportunity to provide technical guidance to less experienced peers.

Lastly, you exhibit a growth mindset, willing to solicit feedback, engage others with empathy and help create a culture of belonging, teamwork and purpose. If you love building customer-centric solutions, strive for excellence every day, are adaptable and focused and believe work should be fun, come join us!

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain components of PitchBook’s backend services. Hands-on development will be an integral part of the responsibilities
• Implement well-designed, testable and efficient code that meets product requirements, coding standards, performance, scalability, reliability and the organization’s goals and principles
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers and other internal stakeholders in an Agile environment
• Provide technical guidance and perform code reviews for team members
• Design and deliver on small projects end-to-end with little to no guidance
• Provide support to applications in production in terms of deployment, troubleshooting and incident management
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a similar field
• 5+ years in Software Development or Engineering roles
• 4+ years of experience with Java
• 2+ years of experience with Python, Go or a similar object-oriented language
• 2+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef)
• 2+ years of experience with containers and orchestration platforms, including Kubernetes and Docker
• Highly proficient in RESTful API design
• Highly experienced in GitOps and creation/management of CI/CD pipelines
• Highly experienced working within a development team in an Agile environment
• Ability to handle a project through the entire software development lifecycle, end to end
• Demonstrate ability to lead and/or provide guidance to junior peers within the team
• Experienced with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with distributed, scalable microservices and event-driven architectures
• Experience with data storage, replication, caching and search technologies, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Amazon RDS, GCP CloudSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and Lucene/Solr
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Familiarity with architecture trade-off analysis methods and domain-driven design preferred

Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook:

Physical Health            

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Additional medical wellness incentives 
• STD, LTD, AD&D and life insurance

Emotional Health 

• Paid sabbatical program after four years
• Paid family and paternity leave 
• Annual educational stipend
• Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement
• CFA exam stipend 
• Robust training programs on industry and soft skills 
• Employee assistance program
• Generous allotment of vacation days, sick days and volunteer days 

Social Health 

• Matching gifts program
• Employee resource groups
• Subsidized emergency childcare  
• Dependent Care FSA
• Company-wide events
• Employee referral bonus program  
• Quarterly team building events

Financial Health 

• 401k match
• Shared ownership employee stock program 
• Monthly transportation stipend  

*Please be aware the above PitchBook benefit and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of your employment.

Compensation

• Annual base salary: $115,000-$207,000
• Target annual bonus percentage: 10%

*Starting pay will be based on several factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. We also have a location-based compensation structure; there may be different ranges for candidates by location.

Life At PB:

We are consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work and our culture is at the heart of our success. It’s our fundamental belief that people do and create great things and that people are the cornerstone of prosperity. We believe that proactively seeking out different points of view, listening to others, learning and reflecting on what we’ve heard creates a sense of belonging within PitchBook and strengthens the PitchBook community.

We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement? We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at PitchBook.

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