Staff Software Engineer - Reporting and Fundraising

Private markets are one of the largest, most complex, and most underserved corners of global finance. Our mission at Juniper Square is to unlock their full potential. We’re the Operations Partner trusted by 2,300+ GPs, unifying technology, data, and fund administration services into a single platform that helps GPs move faster, make better decisions, and scale with precision. With $300B+ under administration and 700,000+ LPs on platform, we’ve built the scale to match our ambition. And with JunieAI, our purpose-built AI platform, we’re reimagining how private markets operate, embedding intelligence across every workflow. Founder-led since 2014, backed by $350M+ in funding, and now 1,000+ employees strong, we’re building a company designed to shape the future of private markets for decades to come.

Our culture is built for people who want to do ambitious, meaningful work alongside exceptionally talented teammates. We think like owners, move with urgency, and take pride in solving hard problems that truly matter to our customers and the future of private markets. We believe the best ideas come from open debate, deep collaboration, and diverse perspectives, which is why we believe transparency is the default and feedback makes us stronger. If you’re energized by high standards, rapid growth, and the opportunity to help define a category at a pivotal moment, come join us!

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Juniper Square, you will be primarily a technical leader, identifying and acting on opportunities to increase the engineering team's efficiency, stability, and consistency. You will lead an engineering team and collaborate closely with product, design, and QA teams to build and deliver delightful user experiences that make complex workflows simple and intuitive.
You will lead efforts to instill and iterate on engineering best practices, ensuring a healthy codebase and ultimately leveling up the team.

We are hiring Staff Engineers across two critical domains:

Fundraising: Lead and architect our next-generation fundraising platform to digitize private capital markets through a seamless, "one-click" subscription experience. You will lead the technical strategy for reusable investor profiles and AI-driven intelligence to automate complex financial workflows for enterprise managers. You'll solve high-scale engineering challenges to replace manual, fragmented processes with a modern, "omni-channel" onboarding infrastructure.

Reporting: Lead the squad that builds the backbone of Juniper Square's financial and web reporting. You'll help set the private-markets standard for customizable, actionable reporting, letting users pull any data from anywhere, place it anywhere, in any format, and generate insights that drive decisions. We integrate diverse data sources to deliver intuitive, dynamic reporting experiences. This is a critical, hands-on role for a player-coach who improves systems, automates reporting workflows, enjoys working with financial data, and boosts operational efficiency.

AI-Native Culture & Velocity: Champion and embed AI-native development practices and tools (e.g., Cursor, Augment) to achieve significant productivity gains, fostering a "startup-mode" culture of rapid iteration, high velocity, and quality, including guiding the effective use of AI code generation

Technical Ownership & Architecture: Take ownership over the team's architecture, actively participating in design reviews and driving the long-term technical vision.

Individual Coding Contribution: Take ownership of team code, and actively participate in coding, testing and delivering roadmap projects. Write high-quality code that is well-tested, secure, and maintainable

Service Oriented Architecture: Be instrumental in the transition from our monolith into Service Oriented Architecture

Platform & Developer Experience: Actively seek opportunities to improve our platform and developer experience and own those initiatives through execution

Workflow Automation & AI Integration: Lead the team in designing and implementing robust workflow automation solutions. Identify opportunities to leverage AI and modern tooling to increase the efficiency and scalability of internal systems

Execution & Project Management: Effectively manage the team's short-term roadmap (spanning the next two quarters), actively identifying risks and creating clear mitigation strategies to ensure successful project delivery

Team Leadership & Mentorship: Provide full-stack focused technical leadership, leveling up existing team members and helping build high-performance teams. Mentor engineers, fostering their technical and professional growth

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Product, UX, QA, Customer Support) to ensure the team meets project timelines and solutions align with business strategy. Handle most cross-team conflicts and decisions autonomously

Operational Excellence: Own monitoring, diagnosing, and resolving production issues within the team's services. Actively monitoring and addressing production issues

Best Practices Implementation: Implement and ensure best practices across the teams to maximize developer productivity

Hiring & Team Building: Partner with recruiting to build and grow the team

Code Reviews & Quality: Contribute directly to efforts through building features and frameworks, conducting code reviews, participating in architecture and system design discussions

Complex Workflow Development: Lead the development of complex workflows, working with both frontend and backend engineers

Domain Expertise: Grow into a subject matter expert (SME) in your domain (Reporting or Fundraising), with an in-depth understanding of customer needs and value proposition

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

• 7+ years of experience working with modern web application frameworks (preferably React) and demonstrating a trajectory of increasing technical leadership, architectural responsibility, and mentorship

• Expertise in object-oriented programming (OOP) such as Python, Node/TS, Java, C++, C#, or similar server-side languages

• Experience with front-end technologies like React, CSS frameworks, HTML, and JavaScript

• Solid understanding of server-side MVC frameworks (like Django, Rails, Pyramid etc.)

• Experience with Relational Databases like Postgres or MySQL

• Experience with SQL database schema design and query optimization

• Experience with Cloud technologies (AWS preferred) and Container technologies (Docker and k8s)

• Experience operating Linux clusters (Amazon Web Services is a plus)

• Demonstrable product focus and a keen understanding of how technology can solve customer problems and drive business outcomes

• Highly self-driven, with a proactive approach to leadership, technical problem-solving, and initiative execution

• Experience working in agile development environments and familiarity with practices that promote rapid iteration and velocity

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and align them on product goals

• A strong "player-coach" mindset, with a proven ability and willingness to be hands-on with code, design, and architecture when necessary to lead by example and unblock your team

• Leading projects end-to-end; strong player-coach mindset; hands-on coder + technical leader; working with product independently

• Enthusiasm for adopting and driving the use of AI-native development tools and methodologies (e.g., Cursor, Augment,

• Hands-on experience with AI-native development tools (e.g., Cursor, Augment, Loveable.AI); demonstrated ability to embed AI-driven practices to accelerate team velocity and code quality

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and lead teams effectively in a fast-paced, innovative environment

• Deep understanding of service-oriented architecture, modern software development practices, and developing scalable, reliable systems

• You must be flexible and adaptable, you will be juggling multiple projects in a fast-paced startup environment

• 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.

• Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code and outputs, including identifying failure modes, regressions, and edge cases introduced by AI-assisted development

• Experience building and shipping production-grade software using AI-assisted workflows across the full SDLC

• Hands-on experience developing or integrating LLM-powered systems (e.g., agents, copilots, tool-using workflows, or multi-step reasoning systems)

• Familiarity with patterns such as tool-calling agents, planning/execution loops, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

• Demonstrated ability to leverage modern AI tools to improve development velocity, code quality, and problem-solving

• Experience contributing to AI-powered features (e.g., intelligent search, conversational interfaces, recommendations, automation)

• Working knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, semantic search, and RAG pipelines

• Ability to identify and evaluate opportunities to integrate AI capabilities into products and workflows

Nice to Have:

• For Fundraising: Experience in a Treasury, Payments, Fundraising, or Investor Relations domain

• For Reporting: Experience with data integration platforms, ETL/ELT processes, business intelligence tools, or working with financial data

• Python preference

• Postgres

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.

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $220,000 USD, and the Canada base salary range is $150,000 - $210,00 CAD. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. Your recruiter can provide further details.

Benefits include:

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

• Life insurance and disability coverage

• Mental wellness coverage

• Fertility and growing family support

• Unlimited vacation in addition to company-paid holidays

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

• 401k retirement savings plan

• Healthcare FSA and commuter benefits programs

• 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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