Highnote · 1 day ago
Senior Core Services Engineer
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $230K/yr
12+ years expHighnote is an embedded finance company that sets the standard in modern card platform management. The Senior Core Services Engineer will be responsible for building secure and compliant platform products, writing high-quality code, and interfacing with various company domains to strengthen the platform.
Credit CardsFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsTransaction Processing
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
12+ years experience building production software systems
A history of writing scalable, performant and maintainable code. We strongly believe languages can be learned and care more about your engineering skill over frameworks
Experience building out common platform libraries such as logging, configuration, encryption, async etc
Experience with Java, Spring Boot/Spring Framework, GCP services, and understanding of OAuth
Preferred
Agentic AI experience
Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
Experience with Spring Boot, Docker, and Kubernetes
Knowledge of gRCP and Protobuf
Experience with distributed event system
Experience with software security
Experience with big data technologies such as BigQuery and RedShift
Experience with building data pipelines for search platform
A background in the fintech space
Benefits
Flexible Paid Time Off
100% healthcare coverage + 75% coverage for dependents
401k program
Paid Parental Leave: Up to 16 weeks paid leave for the birth parent, and up to 6 weeks paid leave for the non-birth parent
Equity in Highnote
Stipend to build out your home office; internet reimbursement
Company
Highnote
Highnote is an embedded finance company that develops a virtual payment platform to handle payment processing business flows.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$213.07MKey Investors
Oak HC/FT
2025-01-21Series B· $109M
2022-06-18Convertible Note· $25M
2021-12-01Convertible Note· $25M
Leadership Team
John MacIlwaine
Chief Executive Officer
Kin Kee
Co-Founder and CTO
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