Sr. 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

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and data pipelines that ingest, transform, enrich, and index large-scale company and person data
• Own features and system components end-to-end: requirements through design, implementation, testing, and production support
• Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code that meets performance, scalability, and reliability standards
• Contribute to architecture and technical design discussions; identify tradeoffs and advocate for sound engineering decisions
• Perform code reviews and provide meaningful technical feedback to peers
• Support production systems — deployments, troubleshooting, and incident response
• Apply AI tooling to improve your own development, testing, and delivery efficiency; experiment with LLM-powered capabilities where relevant to the platform
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data science partners in an Agile environment
• 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
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, predominantly in backend systems
• 5+ years of Java development experience, including production microservices
• 4+ years with Spring Boot / Spring Framework
• Strong experience with Kafka or comparable streaming/messaging platforms
• Solid experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases at meaningful data volumes
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or comparable search and indexing platforms
• Familiarity with large-scale data ingestion, transformation, or enrichment pipelines — entity resolution, deduplication, or data quality work is a strong plus
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in production environments
• Experience with AWS and/or GCP
• Proficient in RESTful API design
• Experience with unit and integration testing; strong belief in test coverage as a quality bar
• Comfortable working with distributed systems concepts: fault tolerance, eventual consistency, backpressure, at-least-once delivery
• Familiarity with domain-driven design and service-oriented architecture patterns
• Literate in the AI/LLM space — able to evaluate tools, run experiments, and apply them pragmatically without waiting to be told to
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to articulate technical decisions clearly to peers and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Paid sabbatical program after four years
• Paid family and paternity leave
• Annual educational stipend
• 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
• Matching gifts program
• Employee resource groups
• Subsidized emergency childcare
• Dependent Care FSA
• Company-wide events
• Employee referral bonus program
• Quarterly team building events
• 401k match
• Shared ownership employee stock program
• Monthly transportation stipend

Compensation

Annual base salary: $175,000-$215,000
Target annual bonus percentage: 10%

Working Conditions

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