Staff Software Engineer (Platform)

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The Team

The platform team is focused on enabling Juniper Square engineers to build scalable and robust applications off of a common set of shared services and frameworks. The team’s mission is to provide developers with a world-class developer experience.

The team is responsible for building and operating shared services such as but not limited to a notification service, authorization, and authentication. Building any tools, frameworks, and improvements around the developer’s experience in building or operating services along the entire SDLC.

The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer at Juniper Square, you will be primarily a technical leader, identifying and acting on opportunities to increase the efficiency, stability and consistency of the engineering team. Other responsibilities could include leading an engineering team and collaborating closely with product, design, and QA teams to build and deliver delightful user experiences, making complex workflows simple and intuitive.

You will be leading efforts to instill and iterate on engineering best practices, ensuring a healthy codebase, ultimately leveling up the team.

Specifically, you will:

• Provide full stack focused technical leadership, leveling up existing team members and helping build high-performance teams
• Position our entire software stack - both application and DevOps related - for success as we transition from a startup to an large organization
• 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
• Implement and ensure best practices across the teams to maximize developer productivity
• Own the long-term vision of key focus areas such as Juniper Square’s design system, GraphQL schema design, build-and-deploy process, and code quality initiatives including Typescript and test coverage
• Contribute directly to efforts through building features and frameworks, conducting code reviews, participating in architecture and system design discussions
• Actively monitoring and addressing production issues
• Write high-quality code that is well-tested, secure, and maintainable
• Lead the development of complex workflows, working with both frontend and backend engineers
• Mentor other engineers and designers across the company on best practices for full stack development

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience working with modern web application frameworks 
• Expertise in Python (or other server-side web application development languages)
• Solid understanding of server-side MVC frameworks (like Django, Rails, Pyramid etc.)
• Experience with SQL database schema design and query optimization is a plus
• Experience operating Linux clusters (Amazon Web Services is a plus)
• Experience with microservices/SOA implementation and best practices
• You must be flexible and adaptable—you will be juggling multiple projects in a fast-paced startup environment. 

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

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this role is $151,200 - $252,000. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in Canada, and offer competitive local pay and benefits. 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 

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