Technical Lead, Platform Engineering

Summary

Join Juniper Square's Platform team as a Senior Software Engineer! You'll build and maintain foundational services like CIAM, authorization, search, and API infrastructure. This role involves collaborating with engineers, designers, and product managers to translate vision into code, advocating for modern architectural patterns, and optimizing database queries. You'll create internal tools, produce high-quality code, and provide support to product teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience with large-scale systems, expertise in Python and relevant frameworks, and experience with cloud technologies. Juniper Square offers a flexible work environment, ranging from fully remote to working in one of their physical offices.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Work 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

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