Senior Software Engineer, Platform (Backend)

About Juniper Square

Our mission is to unlock the full potential of private markets. Privately owned assets like commercial real estate, private equity, and venture capital make up half of our financial ecosystem yet remain inaccessible to most people. We are digitizing these markets, and as a result, bringing efficiency, transparency, and access to one of the most productive corners of our financial ecosystem. If you care about making the world a better place by making markets work better through technology – all while contributing as a member of a values-driven organization – we want to hear from you. 

Juniper Square offers employees a variety of ways to work, ranging from a fully remote experience to working full-time in one of our physical offices. We invest heavily in digital-first operations, allowing our teams to collaborate effectively across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England. We also have physical offices in San Francisco, New York City, Mumbai and Bangalore for employees who prefer to work in an office some or all of the time.

About your role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team. The Platform team builds and maintains foundational services like Identity and Access management, authorization, Search, and API infrastructure, while also developing tools, frameworks, and enhancements to improve the developer experience across the entire software development lifecycle.

What you’ll do 

• Own projects end-to-end, from concept and architecture through implementation, testing, and deployment.

• Partner closely with engineering, design, and product to translate product and technical vision into code.

• Design, build, and operate high-performance backend services at scale.

• Evolve existing systems to support rapidly growing scale and complexity.

• Proactively surface execution, cost, and technical risks, align on trade-offs, and drive pragmatic solutions to unblock teams.

• Set and uphold a high bar for technical excellence through strong design, coding, and testing practices.

• Leverage observability to measure, improve, and maintain application performance and reliability.

• Shape the team roadmap by identifying opportunities for technical improvements and innovation.

• Build internal tools that improve efficiency for engineers and partner teams across the organization.

• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning and technical growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting large scale systems in production.

• Expertise in Python and frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, Pyramid, Django.

• Experience with SQL database schema design and query optimizations.

• Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes.

• Experience with continuous integration and infrastructure as code.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a team.

• Passion for improving developer experience through better tooling, automation, and documentation.

• You are flexible and adaptable—you will be juggling multiple projects in a fast-paced startup environment.

Nice to Have's

• Experience working on a Platform team / building tools for other developers.

• Experience building products or tools using GenAI/LLMs.

• Experience working with GraphQL.

• Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.

Compensation

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. The U.S. base salary range is $165,000 - $215,000 USD and the Canada base salary range is $150,000 - $190,000 CAD. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable.

Benefits include:

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family

• Life insurance

• Mental wellness coverage

• Fertility and growing family support

• Flex Time Off in addition to company paid holidays

• Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies

• Retirement saving plans

• Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home

• Annual professional development stipend

Your recruiter can provide additional details about compensation and benefits.

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