Senior Software Engineer, Highnote

Data Platform

$170-230k

+ equity

SQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Java

Kafka

Postgres

Cassandra

Kinesis

BigQuery

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3+ days a week in office

Card issuer and payments services

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Card issuer and payments services

101-200 employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial ServicesAPI

Be an early applicant

$170-230k

+ equity

SQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Java

Kafka

Postgres

Cassandra

Kinesis

BigQuery

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3+ days a week in office

101-200 employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial ServicesAPI

Company mission

To accelerate the transformation to digital payments by removing the barriers to innovation for companies building payments experiences.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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

Desirable

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 fintech space

What the job involves

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
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

Our take

Highnote is a provider of branded payment cards which can be used by customers or employees for a range of purposes, such as in-store shopping, loyalty scheme or corporate expenses. Traditionally the process of making and issuing these cards was onerous and expensive, effectively limited to only the largest brands. Highnote allows companies of any size to issue these kinds of cards quickly, and with a far wider range of financial products built in to suit the issuer's needs, such as buy-now-pay-later options or expense reporting which can be tracked centrally.

Founded by former BrainTree and PayPal executives, Highnote has attracted a significant level of funding. It is moving quickly to overtake other companies in this space, especially incumbent Marqeta. Having built a modern platform that takes advantage of the latest innovations in the fintech sector, Highnote is working to grow its market presence and futher develop its platform. Going forward it will continue to form strategic partnerships with firms such as Visa to allow it to issue a wider range of cards and support additional financial services for its customers.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

11% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.3)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jun 2022

$25m

CONVERTIBLE

Sep 2021

$54m

SERIES A

Total funding: $90.5m

Company benefits

Empowered Teams
Inclusive Culture
Remote Friendly
Unlimited Days of PTO
100% Health, dental, vision coverage
401k Retirement Account
12/6 Weeks paid parental leave
Equity

Company values

Customer Obsession - We obsess over the challenges our customers face and create inspired solutions that empower them to differentiate and win
Executional Excellence - We believe results matter and that a disciplined and thoughtful approach leads to phenomenal outcomes
Intentional Inclusion - We cultivate a trusting, transparent environment where everyone has a voice, believing that diversity of thought leads to phenomenal work from our teams and fantastic results for our customers

Articles

Highnote emerges from stealth with $54M and a plan to take on Marqeta in the world of card issuing as a service

PayPal Vets Bring Full-Stack Embedded Finance Platform Out of Stealth With $54M Raise with Top Fintech VCs

Jeff Bezos-Backed Chipper Cash Partners with Highnote

3 Things You Need to Know About Highnote’s New Partnership with Plaid

Highnote receives certification as a Visa card issuer processor

Leadership

John MacIlwaine

(CEO)

Was CTO of Morgan Stanley's Private Client Group, and Head of Global Development at Visa. Former Board Member at Blucora.

Kin Kee

(CTO)

Started out as a Software Engineer at Elance, and was a System Architect at LRN. Former VP of Technology at Lending Club and Director of Architecture at Braintree.

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