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At PitchBook, 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, PitchBook is the place for you.

About the Role :

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!

As a Staff Software Architect within the Product organization, you will be responsible for architecting and delivering the next suite of services that power the PitchBook platform. You will be essential in guiding one or more technical teams to build exceptional solutions relied upon and used by thousands of PitchBook customers every day and work with PitchBook professionals around the world with the collective goal of delighting our customers and growing our business.

The team will rely on your broad and deep experience in building and delivering comprehensive cloud solutions and full understanding of the team’s business domain to shape principles and practices and capture just-in-time decisions based on trade-off analysis. With your strong analytical skills, you’ll be able to break down abstract and complex problems into smaller problems and apply Domain Driven Design approaches such as identifying bounded contexts and establishing decomposition process. You will be expected to devise solutions based on limited information and precedent to find creative ways to tackle challenges. It is essential that you will be able to interpret, assess, and resolve a wide range of issues and be able to select the right course of action.

You will collaborate with external and internal stakeholders of different roles and backgrounds and who may have varying degrees of understanding of the domain. You may need to adapt your style of communication based on the audience you are interacting with and will be relied on to influence decisions to build optimal solutions to complex challenges. Additionally, as a technical expert in a broad set of domains, you will be expected to engage actively in promoting architecture guideline, principles, and practices across team(s) and be a driver for consistency and alignment for cross cutting concerns using influence and effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Lastly, you exhibit a growth mindset, are willing to solicit feedback, engage others with empathy, and help create a culture of belonging, teamwork, and purpose. If you love building customer-centric solutions, strive for excellence every day, are adaptable and focused, and believe work should be fun, come join us!

Primary Job Responsibilities :

• Architect, design, develop, and maintain components of PitchBook’s services including backend with aspects of front-end related to architecture (micro front-end patterns). Hands-on development will be part of the responsibilities
• Ensure qualities / non-functional requirements of the platforms and products are defined, measurable, and continuously evaluated to deliver the right product to our users
• Document architecture evolutions (current state, future state, phasing) and communicate architecture and elaborate with teams
• Implement well-designed, testable, and efficient code that meets product requirements, coding standards, performance, scalability, reliability, and the organization’s goals and principles
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and other internal stakeholders in an Agile environment
• Provide technical guidance and perform architectural reviews with team members
• Design and deliver on end-to-end initiatives with little to no guidance
• Define and participate in processes that improve products using return on experience, root cause analysis of incidents
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

Skills and Qualifications :

Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook :

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Working Conditions :

At the heart of our company is a belief in the power of in-person collaboration. Being together in the office fuels our creativity, strengthens our connections, and drives the innovation that sets us apart. Our culture is built on spontaneous moments—those hallway conversations, whiteboard brainstorms, and shared celebrations in each of our global offices—that simply can’t be replicated remotely. This role is expected to be in the office 5 days a week.

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.

Life At PB :

We are consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work and our culture is at the heart of our success. It’s our fundamental belief that people do and create great things and that people are the cornerstone of prosperity. We believe that proactively seeking out different points of view, listening to others, learning, and reflecting on what we’ve heard creates a sense of belonging within PitchBook and strengthens the PitchBook community.

We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement? We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at PitchBook.

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