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 roleWe’re looking for a Technical Lead to join our Platform team. The Platform team builds and maintains foundational services like CIAM, 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 doWork with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn our product and technical vision into code.
Advocate for and implement modern architectural patterns.
Extend existing functionality to handle our rapidly increasing scale.
Monitor and optimize database queries to increase performance.
Create internal tools to support other engineers and other departments, to make their jobs more efficient.
Produce high-quality, thoroughly tested code and perform code reviews for colleagues.
Provide guidance, documentation, and support to product teams using the platform.
Use observability tools to measure and enhance frontend application performance and reliability.
Work closely with product engineers to align on platform improvements.
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
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.
At Juniper Square, we believe building a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture makes us a better company. If you think this job sounds like a fit, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the qualifications.
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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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