Senior Technical Lead – Full Stack

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Establish the technical vision for AI systems, which includes shared AI SDKs, safeguards, evaluation frameworks, feedback systems, and agentic workflow infrastructure.

• Oversee the architecture and technical strategy for intricate backend and AI platform systems, from initial design through to production.

• Lead the technical design for complex, cross-functional initiatives, assessing trade-offs, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring successful implementation.

• Write production code as an active hands-on contributor; this position does not delegate implementation tasks to others.

• Design and maintain LLM-powered systems, incorporating RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, evaluation infrastructure, safeguards, and model observability.

• Take full responsibility for the reliability of AI systems, from design to structured output delivery.

• Establish quality benchmarks.

• Advocate for and integrate AI-native development practices and tools, such as Cursor and Augment, to enhance productivity across the team.

• Promote a culture of rapid iteration, high velocity, and quality, including guiding the effective application of AI code generation.

• Mentor engineers, enhance the quality of technical decision-making, and assist the team in executing tasks consistently.

• Set coding standards, review practices, and architectural documentation that can scale as the team expands.

• Collaborate with recruiting to develop and grow the team.

• Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product, Design, and QA to convert requirements into actionable technical plans.

• Actively participate in design reviews and roadmap discussions with a practical, implementation-focused perspective.

• Manage most cross-team conflicts and technical decisions independently.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

• 10 to 12 years of experience in software development, encompassing building, integration, security, and architecture.

• Previous experience in developing enterprise-grade APIs is an advantage.

• Prior experience in a leadership role is beneficial.

• Proficiency in object-oriented programming with Python as the primary language.

• Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React, CSS frameworks, HTML, and JavaScript.

• Experience with relational databases like Postgres and MySQL.

• Knowledge of SQL database schema design and query optimization.

• Experience with cloud technologies, ideally AWS, along with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with GraphQL and Apollo Server is a plus, though not mandatory.

• Must be flexible, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Juniper Square provides employees with a variety of working arrangements, from a fully remote setup to full-time work in one of our physical offices.

• We heavily invest in digital-first operations, enabling our teams to collaborate effectively across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England.

• We also maintain physical offices in San Francisco, New York City, Mumbai, and Bangalore for employees who prefer to work in an office setting, either part-time or full-time.