Unified card issuing, acquiring, credit and ledger platform via API
Highnote sells payments infrastructure that combines card issuing, acquiring, credit, ledgering and real-time money movement behind a GraphQL API. Its stack runs on both GCP (Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow) and AWS, with Java/Spring Boot services on Kubernetes and Istio. Agent frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI and AutoGen point to AI work, including AI-driven financial analysis. Senior-only, sales-tilted hiring suggests a commercial push on a mature platform.
Highnote is a San Francisco-based payments platform company founded in 2020. It gives enterprises a single platform for issuing cards, accepting payments, extending credit, keeping a ledger and moving money in real time, replacing separate point vendors. Its specialties include virtual card issuance and API-first integration built on GraphQL. The privately held company employs 51–200 people and currently hires in the United States across sales, engineering and finance.
Highnote uses GraphQL, TypeScript, Java with Spring Boot, Python, Kubernetes, Istio, GCP services like Cloud Spanner, BigQuery and Pub/Sub, plus AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL and Looker.
Highnote is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is hiring in the United States.
Job posts point to API documentation improvements, AI-driven automation for financial analysis, and scenario and sensitivity modeling within finance.
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