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 The Role
We are building a strategic new backend platform service that will own a critical content lifecycle end-to-end — from initial creation through multi-stage internal review to external delivery — at multi-tenant scale, with audit-grade compliance.
This is a backend-heavy role — the core charter is distributed-systems engineering: event-driven architecture, Postgres at scale, durable eventing, multi-tenant performance, and production reliability. The service is also designed with first-class extensibility for AI use cases (foundation for RAG, AI-driven classification, and more). A working understanding of full-stack is a plus, but the primary bar is backend depth.
Why this role is exciting: You will be the single technical owner for this service from green-field through a multi-phase rollout — partnering closely with architecture, engineering management, and product leadership. You'll set the technical direction for a high-impact platform, lead a team of 4–5 engineers, and groom junior engineers into senior contributors. It's a high-autonomy, high-visibility role with a clear path to staff-level impact for the right candidate.
What You'll Do
Own the end-to-end backend architecture: event-driven core, Postgres partitioning, durable eventing patterns, multi-tenant scale
Design APIs, microservice boundaries, and service contracts for a high-throughput, multi-tenant platform
Build the AI integration surface: foundation for RAG, async classification, and other AI use cases
Drive technical phasing across multiple product phases (foundations → review workflows → external delivery → search/AI → migration)
Partner with platform architects to align with company-wide standards (eventing, observability, deploy)
Lead a team of 4–5 engineers technically — design reviews, code reviews, raising the engineering bar
Groom and mentor junior engineers — pair on hard problems, run learning sessions, give actionable feedback, and create a clear path for them to grow into senior engineers
Own production health — SLOs, runbooks, incident postmortems.
Must Have Skills
10+ years of backend engineering, 5+ years in Python (or strong polyglot — Python/Java)
Production experience with async Python (FastAPI / asyncio) at scale
Strong API design — REST/gRPC, versioning, schema evolution, backward compatibility
Microservices and distributed systems — service boundaries, contracts, eventing patterns, idempotency, outbox/saga
Deep PostgreSQL chops — partitioning, complex queries, replication, performance tuning
Scale & performance — capacity planning, caching, query optimization, latency/throughput trade-offs
AWS deep — ECS/EKS, S3, SNS/SQS, Aurora, IAM, IaC
Observability and production ownership — metrics, tracing, on-call, SLOs, postmortems
Experience leading project-level technical direction for 12+ months with measurable outcomes
Track record of grooming and mentoring junior and mid-level engineers — taking them from execution-level work to ownership of design and delivery.
Good to Have
Full-stack working knowledge — React, modern TypeScript, ability to reason about end-to-end request flow
Hands-on production AI integration with a major LLM provider (OpenAI / Anthropic / Bedrock)
Foundation for RAG / built a production RAG system with a vector DB (pgvector / OpenSearch / Pinecone)
MCP (Model Context Protocol) — built or seriously prototyped a custom MCP server, or worked with agent frameworks
Document management or content platform background; multi-tenant SaaS at scale
Compliance-driven system experience (SOC2 / SOX)
Open-source contributions in Python or AI tooling; fintech / asset management / SaaS domain exposure.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of backend engineering
- 5+ years in Python or strong polyglot -- Python/Java
- Production experience with async Python (FastAPI / asyncio) at scale
- Strong API design expertise -- REST/gRPC
- Experience with microservices and distributed systems
- Deep PostgreSQL knowledge including partitioning and performance tuning
- Experience with AWS services like ECS/EKS and Aurora
- Proven track record of mentoring junior and mid-level engineers
- Leading project-level technical direction for 12+ months
Juniper Square Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Juniper Square and has not been reviewed or approved by Juniper Square.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and family leave is frequently characterized as generous, with structured return‑to‑work support referenced. Feedback suggests family‑forming and caregiver supports are a notable strength.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO alongside paid holidays and sick time is consistently highlighted. Team practices like no‑meeting days and flexible scheduling further support time away.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A digital‑first, remote‑friendly setup is reinforced by home‑office stipends, setup reimbursements, and expanded mental‑health support. Feedback suggests these perks materially improve daily work flexibility and wellbeing.
Juniper Square Insights
What We Do
At Juniper Square, we work hard every day to set the bar high in the work we do. We bring out the very best in each other without sacrificing kindness, quality, and the willingness to learn. You will see that every function and team is given respect here, because when any one of us wins, we all win. We bring a beginner’s mind to our work, not ego—enabling learning and creative and critical thinking. Some people talk about transparency, but here we treat you like the owner that you are: We share knowledge and information with all our employees, knowing that informed teams are successful teams (and happy ones too).
Why Work With Us
Our vision is to make the world’s private capital markets more efficient, transparent, and accessible through financial technology. We have an opportunity to transform an enormous and important industry, and we feel lucky to be working with the most talented, kindest, and most ambitious colleagues of our careers. Come join us!
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