About Juniper Square

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 role

We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale secure, high-performance public-facing APIs. You will play a key role in developing robust backend services using Python, FastAPI, Celery, PostgreSQL, and AWS, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance in production environments.

This role requires strong engineering fundamentals, API design expertise, and experience building distributed systems. Exposure to frontend technologies is considered a strong advantage.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and maintain public-facing RESTful APIs using Python and FastAPI

• Architect scalable backend systems with clean, modular, and testable code

• Implement asynchronous/background processing using Celery

• Design and optimise schemas and queries in PostgreSQL

• Deploy, monitor, and scale applications on AWS

• Ensure API security, authentication, authorisation, and rate limiting

• Implement observability (logging, metrics, tracing) for production systems

• Write unit and integration tests

• Participate in architecture discussions and collaborate cross-functionally

• Ensure high availability and reliability of APIs

Qualifications

• 2-3.5 years of experience in full-stack software development.

• Strong proficiency in Python/Java

• Hands-on experience with FastAPI (or similar frameworks like Flask/Django REST)

• Proven experience building and scaling public-facing APIs

• Strong understanding of REST principles, API versioning, and backward compatibility

• Experience with asynchronous task processing using Celery

• Solid experience with PostgreSQL (query optimisation, indexing, transactions)

• Strong understanding of database design and performance tuning

• Experience with caching mechanisms such as Redis

• Experience deploying and operating services on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS preferred)

• Experience with API Gateway, rate limiting, and web application firewalls (WAF)

• Strong understanding of authentication and authorisation (OAuth2, JWT)

• Experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)

• Experience with frontend technologies (React / Next.js / TypeScript) is an added advantage

Benefits include:

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

• Life insurance

• Mental wellness coverage

• Fertility and growing family support

• Flex Time Off in addition to company paid holidays

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

• Retirement saving plans

• Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home

• Annual professional development stipend

Your recruiter can provide additional details about compensation and benefits.