Senior Technical Lead

Juniper Square

Senior Technical Lead at Juniper Square developing a backend platform and leading a team of engineers. Focus on distributed systems, AI integration, and production reliability.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsGRPCJavaMicroservicesPostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 — taking them from execution-level work to ownership of design and delivery.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend engineeringPythonasync PythonFastAPIAPI designRESTgRPCPostgreSQLmicroservicesdistributed systems

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringteam collaborationcode reviewsdesign reviewsfeedbackcapacity planningproblem-solvingcommunicationproject management