Senior Core Services Engineer

Highnote • San Francisco, CA

15h • $170,000 - $230,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Highnote is an embedded finance company founded in 2020 by leaders from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club. We offer a modern card platform management system, acting as an all-in-one card issuer processor and program management platform. Our solution provides digital-first organizations with the flexibility to issue and process payment cards, embed virtual and physical card payments, and integrate ledger and wallet functionalities. We have raised over $145M and grown to over 140 employees, with our headquarters in San Francisco and team members across 25+ US states. Our core values are customer obsession, executional excellence, and intentional inclusion. We are building the payment products of the future and are looking for the right people to join us. We are a fast-moving, hands-on company that believes in inclusivity and unlocking incredible opportunities in the payments industry.

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
• Experience building out common platform libraries such as logging, configuration, encryption, async etc
• Experience with Java, Spring Boot/Spring Framework, GCP services, and understanding of OAuth
• Proficiency using AI-powered development tools (e.g., Claude Code) across the full software development lifecycle - including design, prototyping, development, testing, and iteration. A demonstrated passion for AI-driven development, a commitment to continuously advancing AI skills, and a drive to push the boundaries of productivity and engineering outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Agentic AI experience
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
• Experience with Spring Boot, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of gRCP and Protobuf
• Experience with distributed event system
• Experience with software security
• Experience with big data technologies such as BigQuery and RedShift
• Experience with building data pipelines for search platform
• A background in the fintech space

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed