Technical Lead (Platform) - India

The role

The Technical Lead will join the Platform team to build and maintain foundational services like Identity and Access Management, authorization, Search, and API infrastructure. You will develop tools, frameworks, and enhancements to improve the developer experience across the software development lifecycle.

What you will do

• Work with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn product and technical vision into code
• Advocate for and implement modern architectural patterns
• Extend existing functionality to handle increasing scale
• Monitor and optimize database queries to increase performance
• Create internal tools to support other engineers and departments
• Produce high-quality, thoroughly tested code and perform code reviews
• Provide guidance, documentation, and support to product teams using the platform
• Use observability tools to measure and enhance frontend application performance and reliability
• Work closely with product engineers to align on platform improvements

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting large scale systems in production
• Expertise in Python and frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, Pyramid, Django
• Experience with SQL database schema design and query optimizations
• Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with continuous integration and Infrastructure as Code
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a team
• Passion for improving developer experience through better tooling, automation, and documentation
• Flexible and adaptable to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced startup environment

Nice to have

• Experience working on a Platform team / building tools for other developers
• Experience building products or tools using GenAI/LLMs
• Experience with authentication and authorization
• Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices

About the company

Juniper Square is an Operations Partner for private markets that unifies technology, data, and fund administration services into a single platform. The company is founder-led and employs over 1,000 people.