Senior Core Services Engineer

Please note that positions located in San Francisco are hybrid and include core 💼 Full-time💰 $170,000–$170,000🗓 2026-09-07

Core

Building secure, compliant, and scalable platform products, common application services, and libraries to support the company's card issuance and processing ecosystem.

Role type

Senior Core Services Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure)

Builds

Common application services, libraries (logging, configuration, encryption, async), and platform tooling for the card management platform.

Domain

Fintech / Embedded Finance / Payments

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Java, Spring Boot/Spring Framework, GCP services, OAuth, AI-powered development tools, distributed systems, software security

Preferred skills

Agentic AI, Docker, Kubernetes, gRPC, Protobuf, distributed event systems, big data technologies (BigQuery, RedShift), data pipelines

Technologies

Java, Spring Boot, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, gRPC, Protobuf, BigQuery, RedShift

Responsibilities

Building secure and compliant platform products that solve customer needs; Writing high quality and robustly tested code; Understanding customer problems to build the right solutions; Documenting work to support rapid scaling; Interfacing with various company domains to strengthen the platform.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About Highnote

Series A200 Employees

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.