Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Key Skills

Amazon RedShift, Apache Kafka, AWS, AWS Kinesis, Big Data Technology, Cloud computing, Data Lake, Data pipelines, Data structuring, Data Warehousing, Docker, Fin-tech, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Java Programming, Kubernetes-K8s, NoSQL, Postgres, Python Programming, Software Development, Spring Boot, SQL

Job Description

Job Description

The Data Platform Team is part of the Data Organization and is responsible for designing and building modern scalable, secure and reliable data platforms and data pipelines. With the data platforms, we will be able to serve the product/customer data needs, improve operational efficiency and increase revenue.

What you’ll be doing

• 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

What we are looking for

• 6+ 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

Bonus skills

• 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

Why Highnote?

• We’re a startup that allows for our employees to truly build from the ground up and impact every layer of our organization.
• We’re a team of payments obsessed individuals. While some of us come from the fintech world, some of us don’t. We value the varied backgrounds and the diverse perspectives of our employees.
• We’re small on hierarchy and big on growth. We’re a flat organization that allows everyone to have direct exposure to our leadership team. We are looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity.
• We’re backed by Oak HC/FT, Costanoa Ventures, and XYZ Ventures. Angel Investors include Bill Ready (CEO at Pinterest) and Renaud Laplanche (Co-Founder & CEO of Upgrade).

Highnote benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• 100% healthcare coverage + 75% coverage for dependents
• 401k program
• Up to 16 weeks off for Maternity leave + up to 6 weeks of Paternity leave
• Equity in Highnote
• Stipend to build out your home office; internet reimbursement

At Highnote we have built a total rewards philosophy that includes fair, equitable, geo-based compensation that is performance and potential based. Our compensation packages are competitive based on robust market research and are a combination of a cash salary, equity, and benefits. In compliance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the annual salary range for applicants is $170,000-$235,000.

Please note that positions located in San Francisco are hybrid and include core working days of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in office. We provide flexible work options based on distance from our downtown SF office. Highnote believes in the power of face-to-face, personal connection. As a result, we prioritize in-person candidates.