Senior Technical Lead
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Juniper Square Private markets
Location: IndiaFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of backend engineering, 5+ years in Python (or strong polyglot — Python/Java)
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLPythonJavaTypeScriptFastAPIgRPCReactRESTful APIsMicroservicesLLMDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering
- 5+ years in Python (or strong polyglot — Python/Java)
- Production experience with async Python (FastAPI / asyncio) at scale
- Strong API design — REST/gRPC, versioning, schema evolution, backward compatibility
- Microservices and distributed systems — service boundaries, contracts, eventing patterns, idempotency, outbox/saga
- Deep PostgreSQL chops — partitioning, complex queries, replication, performance tuning
- Scale & performance — capacity planning, caching, query optimization, latency/throughput trade-offs
- AWS deep — ECS/EKS, S3, SNS/SQS, Aurora, IAM, IaC
- Observability and production ownership — metrics, tracing, on-call, SLOs, postmortems
- Experience leading project-level technical direction for 12+ months with measurable outcomes
- Track record of grooming and mentoring junior and mid-level engineers
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end backend architecture: event-driven core, Postgres partitioning, durable eventing patterns, multi-tenant scale
- Design APIs, microservice boundaries, and service contracts for a high-throughput, multi-tenant platform
- Build the AI integration surface: foundation for RAG, async classification, and other AI use cases
- Drive technical phasing across multiple product phases (foundations → review workflows → external delivery → search/AI → migration)
- Partner with platform architects to align with company-wide standards (eventing, observability, deploy)
- Lead a team of 4–5 engineers technically — design reviews, code reviews, raising the engineering bar
- Groom and mentor junior engineers — pair on hard problems, run learning sessions, give actionable feedback, and create a clear path for them to grow into senior engineers
- Own production health — SLOs, runbooks, incident postmortems.
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