Lead Software Development Engineer

About the role

At PitchBook, a Morningstar company, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and lead a small team of software engineers
• Evangelizes better technical practices, and continually raises the bar for technical excellence across the company
• Write production-grade backend code daily — services, pipelines, APIs — from prototype to ship
• Lead system design for new platform capabilities: ingestion pipelines, entity resolution, enrichment workflows, search indexing strategies
• Own the technical quality of the team's output: code review, architecture decisions, performance, reliability, observability
• Absess tradeoffs quickly and pivot when needed — whether that's a proof-of-concept in a day or a multi-week pipeline refactor
• Collaborate directly with the EM, product, and partner teams on requirements and technical direction
• Mentor engineers on the team through code, design discussions, and direct pairing
• Identify and drive down technical debt that meaningfully limits velocity or reliability
• 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
• Helping 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

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field
• Track record of technical leadership in a small, high-ownership team — without needing a large org around you to get things done
• 7+ years of backend software engineering, predominantly in Java on production systems at scale
• Deep experience with distributed data pipelines and streaming systems — Kafka or equivalent
• Strong hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or comparable search/indexing platforms
• Solid PostgreSQL or relational DB expertise at meaningful data volumes
• Experience with large-scale data ingestion, transformation, or enrichment systems — entity resolution, deduplication, or data quality pipelines are a strong plus
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in production
• Cloud infrastructure experience (GCP preferred, AWS acceptable)
• Strong system design instincts: distributed systems, data modeling, API design, fault tolerance
• Experienced and enthusiastic about using AI for productivity and efficiency (github copilot, claude, or equivalent)
• Solid object-oriented design experience including: Domain Driven Design methodology, experience working with service-oriented architectures and Distributed Systems, and an undying belief in the power of testing, CI/CD, and Agile

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

Compensation

Annual base salary: $190,000-$230,000
Target annual bonus percentage: 15%

Working Conditions

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an ongoing basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.