Staff Software Engineer - Reporting and Fundraising

Juniper Square is a leading company in private markets technology, seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance their engineering team's efficiency and deliver exceptional user experiences. This role involves leading technical strategies for fundraising and reporting platforms, advocating for best practices, and mentoring team members to foster growth and collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Take ownership over the team's architecture, actively participating in design reviews and driving the long-term technical vision
• 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
• Be instrumental in the transition from our monolith into Service Oriented Architecture
• Actively seek opportunities to improve our platform and developer experience and own those initiatives through execution
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Own monitoring, diagnosing, and resolving production issues within the team's services. Actively monitoring and addressing production issues
• Implement and ensure best practices across the teams to maximize developer productivity
• Partner with recruiting to build and grow the team
• Contribute directly to efforts through building features and frameworks, conducting code reviews, participating in architecture and system design discussions
• Lead the development of complex workflows, working with both frontend and backend engineers
• Grow into a subject matter expert (SME) in your domain (Reporting or Fundraising), with an in-depth understanding of customer needs and value proposition

Requirements:

• 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
• 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