Title: Lead Software Development Engineer Reporting To: Engineering Manager, Software Development

Job Overview

As the Lead Software Development Engineer at PitchBook, you play a pivotal role as the engineering voice for a stream aligned team.

PitchBook's Lead Software Development Engineer is responsible for being the engineering voice for a stream aligned team, making the suite of products we offer the very best by building systems that are a combination of cutting-edge frameworks, tools, languages, cloud technologies, and people. This role drives projects from design to implementation to maintenance with an eye for scalability, reducing technical debt, and accomplishing company goals.

Team Overview

As a member of the Product and Engineering team at PitchBook, you will be part of a team of big thinkers, innovators and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and our company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation.

We know that greatness is achieved through collaboration and diverse points of view, so we work closely with partners around the globe. As a team, we assume positive intent in each other's words and actions, value constructive discussions, and foster a respectful working environment built on integrity, growth and business value. We invest heavily in our people, who are eager to learn and constantly improve. Join our team and grow with us!

Outline Of Duties And 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.
Enhance large-scale distributed systems for website crawling and information extraction.
Use cloud technology to create robust and scalable software systems.
Work directly with Product, UX, and Data Science teams to build cutting edge tools.
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.

Experience, Skills And Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a similar field.
8+ years in Software Development or Engineering roles.
Hands-on experience in C#/.NET, Web API, Dot Net Core, Java and any front-end framework
Very Strong knowledge of databases and hands on MSSQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL.
Experience and desire to work directly across function and geography with product and design counterparts and be the point of contact for all technical related activities for the team.
Experience with AI-augmented development tools like GitHub Copilot and a passion for leveraging AI in software engineering.
Highly proficient in RESTful API design.
Highly experienced working within a development team in an Agile environment.
Ability to handle a project through the entire software development lifecycle, end to end.
Demonstrate ability to lead and/or provide guidance to junior peers within the team.
Experienced with web technologies and standards (e.g., JSON, JWT).
Experienced with Relational Databases (MSSQL, Postgres).
Experienced with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Familiarity with Container orchestration software (e.g., Kubernetes).
Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
Strong problem-solving ability.
Familiarity with architecture trade-off analysis methods and domain-driven design preferred.

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.

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.

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Software engineering team lead

Software Engineering Team Lead