About Highnote 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. Job Description Core Services Team is responsible for building common application services and libraries, supporting application tooling needs and helping ensure the reliability, scalability and quality of the products.

What We Are Looking For

12+ years experience building production software systems A history of writing scalable, performant and maintainable code. , 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.

Bonus skills 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 Why Highnote? We’re a startup that allows for our employees to truly build from the ground up and impact every layer of our organization. We’re a team of payments obsessed individuals.

While some of us come from the fintech world, some of us don’t. We value the varied backgrounds and the diverse perspectives of our employees. We’re small on hierarchy and big on growth.

We’re a flat organization that allows everyone to have direct exposure to our leadership team. We are looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity. We’re backed by Oak HC/FT, Costanoa Ventures, Adams Street Partners, Westcap, and Pinegrove Venture Partners.

Angel Investors include Bill Ready (CEO at Pinterest) and Renaud Laplanche (Co-Founder CEO of Upgrade).

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 i

Senior Core Services Engineer