Lead Software Development Engineer

At Pitch Book, 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.

Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means there's going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We're willing to take risks, fail fast, and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence.

If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, Pitch Book is the place for you.

As a member of the Product and Engineering team at Pitch Book, 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!

Pitch Book's Lead Software Development Engineer (Full Stack) is responsible for leading a team to make 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.

• Manage, mentor, and lead a small team of software engineers
• Evangelize better technical practices, and continually raise the bar for technical excellence across the company
• Foster engineering culture via leading by example
• Ensure Engineers within the team execute on the full SDLC: requirements elaboration, design, estimation, implementation, solution testing, and delivery
• Own services and applications and related infrastructure, and ultimately responsible for the services' quality, stability, reliability, and performance in production
• Own estimations of Features and Releases in the Team and can explain them to peer functions and stakeholders
• Responsible for optimal engineering resources allocation and work distribution within the Team to meet the sprint and release goals
• Ensure that Releases & Features meet PB Engineering (Architecture, Quality, Reliability, etc.) standards and guidelines
• Use cloud technology to create robust and scalable software systems
• Work directly with Product, UX, and Data Science teams to build cutting edge tools
• Help 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

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field
• 2+ years of experience managing a team of developers locally and remote
• 5+ years of experience developing Java applications
• 3+ years of experience thinking and working with containers (e.g. Docker)
• 3+ years of experience using container orchestration software (e.g. Kubernetes)
• 2+ years of experience using Front-End technology (HTML, CSS, ES6+, Type Script, React, and Redux, micro front‑end architecture)
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP
• Experienced and enthusiastic about using AI for productivity and efficiency (Github Copilot, Claude, or equivalent)
• Experience writing multithreaded…