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Staff Software Engineer, Back End (GPX - Customer Interactions) - job 1 of 2

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The Team

Our newest team is being built from the ground up, taking on responsibilities focused on customer interactions for our GP clients. This team is built from a business growth need, and will be an exciting opportunity to help lead and shape the team.

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

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
7+ years of experience working with modern web application frameworks (preferably React)
Expertise in Python (or other server-side web application development languages)
Solid understanding of server-side MVC frameworks (like Django, Rails, Pyramid etc.)
Expertise in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS (experience with Jinja2 is a plus)
Experience with SQL database schema design and query optimization is a plus
Experience operating Linux clusters (Amazon Web Services is a plus)
You must be flexible and adaptable—you will be juggling multiple projects in a fast-paced startup environment.

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.