Principal Software Engineer

Highnote•San Francisco, CA

28d•Hybrid

About The Position

Founded in 2020 by a team of leaders from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club, Highnote is an embedded finance company that sets the standard in modern card platform management. As an all-in-one card issuer processor and program management platform, we provide digital-first organizations with the flexibility to seamlessly issue and process payment cards, embed virtual and physical card payments, and integrate ledger and wallet functionalities—empowering businesses to drive growth and profitability. We’ve raised $145M+ and have grown our team to 140+ employees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we’ve managed to build one of the most advanced payments teams in the industry, with team members in 25+ US states. Operating through our core values of customer obsession, executional excellence, intentional inclusion, we’re helping businesses grow for the future by creating the payment products demanded by tomorrow, with the ability to solve for use cases that don’t exist yet. We are fast-moving, hands-on, and strongly believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. We believe we’re unlocking incredible opportunities that can change the future of payments, as long as we have the right people to make it happen. What you’ll be doing 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

Requirements

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
Excitement about shipping customer centric software
Experience with Java >= 11, JPA ORM mapping, Crafting SQLs, unit and integration testing

Nice To Haves

Experience contributing to Card Acquiring platforms
Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
SpringBoot, Docker, and Kubernetes
Experience with big data technologies such as BigQuery and RedShift
A background in the fin-tech space
Experience building AI agents for financial or payment platforms
Familiarity with AI agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, CrewAI, or AutoGen)

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

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

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