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PitchBook · 17 hours ago

Lead Software Development Engineer

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$190K/yr - $240K/yr

5+ years exp

PitchBook, a Morningstar company, is focused on innovation and collaboration within its teams. The Lead Software Development Engineer will manage and mentor a team of software engineers, ensuring the development of high-quality software systems while fostering an engineering culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

AnalyticsFinanceVenture Capital

Culture & Values

No H1B

Responsibilities

Manage, mentor, and lead a small team of software engineers

Evangelize better technical practices, and continually raise the bar for technical excellence across the company

Foster engineering culture via leading by example

Ensure Engineers within the team execute on the full SDLC: requirements elaboration, design, estimation, implementation, solution testing, and delivery

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

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

Use cloud technology to create robust and scalable software systems

Work directly with Product, UX, and Data Science teams to build cutting edge tools

Help 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

Qualification

Java developmentContainer orchestrationCloud technologiesFront-End technologiesMultithreaded applicationsObject-oriented designTeam managementAgile methodologyDevOps practicesAI toolsMicrosoft Office

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field

2+ years of experience managing a team of developers locally and remote

5+ years of experience developing Java applications

3+ years of experience thinking and working with containers (e.g. Docker)

3+ years of experience using container orchestration software (e.g. Kubernetes)

2+ years of experience using Front-End technology (HTML, CSS, ES6+, TypeScript, React, and Redux, micro front-end architecture)

2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP

Experienced and enthusiastic about using AI for productivity and efficiency (Github Copilot, Claude, or equivalent)

Experience writing multithreaded applications

Solid object-oriented design experience including: Domain Driven Design methodology, experience working with Service-Oriented Architectures and Distributed Systems, an understanding of RESTful design, and an undying belief in the power of testing, CI/CD, and Agile

Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite including in-depth knowledge of Outlook, Word, and Excel with the ability to pick up new systems and software easily

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