Highnote · 19 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform
San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $230K/yr
8+ years expHighnote is an embedded finance company founded in 2020, focusing on modern card platform management. The Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform will be responsible for designing and building scalable and secure data platforms and pipelines to support product and customer data needs, enhancing operational efficiency and revenue.
Credit CardsFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsTransaction Processing
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
8+ 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
Preferred
Preferred experience with BigQuery and Snowflake
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
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
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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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