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Juniper Square

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201 - 500 employees

💸 Finance

🏠 Real Estate

☁️ SaaS

💰 $75M Series C on 2019-11

Finance • Real Estate • SaaS

Juniper Square is a company that provides a comprehensive platform and solutions tailored for private investment partnerships. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on enabling seamless connection and communication between General Partners (GPs) and Limited Partners (LPs) throughout the entire investment lifecycle. Juniper Square's technology is purpose-built to support commercial real estate, private equity, and venture capital firms of all sizes. The platform offers services such as fund administration, fundraising, investor management, compliance, and investor reporting, all aimed at enhancing transparency, data governance, and the overall investor experience.

📋 Description

• Operates as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for high-impact initiatives; takes full ownership of project health, system design, and end-to-end delivery. • Partners closely with Product Management and cross-functional teams to clarify ambiguous requirements, map business goals to technical scopes, and manage dependencies. • architectural design, pragmatic task breakdown, and execution planning, driving a team of engineers toward incremental deliverables. • Establish reusable patterns, technical standards, and platform primitives that other teams can build on. • Improve engineering efficiency through better tooling, automation, documentation, observability, and developer workflows. • Mentor engineers, raise the quality of technical decision-making, and help the team execute with consistency. • Drives adoption of AI tooling across the SDLC — building internal capabilities that automate engineering workflows while ensuring security, compliance, and best-practice alignment.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed production systems. • Strong backend engineering experience with Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, Pyramid, or Django. • Experience leading technical design for complex systems, including making architecture decisions, evaluating tradeoffs, and guiding implementation across multiple engineers or teams. • Experience with relational/nosql databases, including schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, and data modeling. • Experience building and operating cloud-native systems using technologies such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code. • Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability, reliability, and operational excellence in production environments. • Ability to work through ambiguity, break down complex technical problems, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and design. • Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to independently drive high-impact initiatives while collaborating effectively in a fast-paced environment. • Demonstrated ability to raise engineering quality through technical standards, design reviews, mentoring, and reusable platform patterns. • Passion for improving developer experience through better platforms, tooling, automation, documentation, and engineering workflows. • Flexibility and adaptability to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced startup environment. • Comfort in driving a technical vision focused on incremental value delivery.

🏖️ Benefits

• remote working options • collaboration across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England • investment in digital-first operations