Staff Design Engineer

The posting, as Juniper Square wrote it

ABOUT JUNIPER SQUARE

Private markets are one of the largest, most complex, and most underserved corners of global finance. Our mission at Juniper Square is to unlock their full potential. We’re the Operations Partner trusted by 2,300+ GPs, unifying technology, data, and fund administration services into a single platform that helps GPs move faster, make better decisions, and scale with precision. With $300B+ under administration and 700,000+ LPs on platform, we’ve built the scale to match our ambition. And with JunieAI, our purpose-built AI platform, we’re reimagining how private markets operate, embedding intelligence across every workflow. Founder-led since 2014, backed by $350M+ in funding, and now 1,000+ employees strong, we’re building a company designed to shape the future of private markets for decades to come.

Our culture is built for people who want to do ambitious, meaningful work alongside exceptionally talented teammates. We think like owners, move with urgency, and take pride in solving hard problems that truly matter to our customers and the future of private markets. We believe the best ideas come from open debate, deep collaboration, and diverse perspectives, which is why we believe transparency is the default and feedback makes us stronger. If you’re energized by high standards, rapid growth, and the opportunity to help define a category at a pivotal moment, come join us!

Juniper Square offers employees a variety of ways to work, ranging from a fully remote experience to working full-time in one of our physical offices. We invest heavily in digital-first https://blog.junipersquare.com/juniper-square-ponders-future-of-office-with-digital-first-hybrid-workplace-strategy/ operations, allowing our teams to collaborate effectively across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England. We also have physical offices in San Francisco, New York City, Mumbai and Bangalore for employees who prefer to work in an office some or all of the time.

ABOUT YOUR ROLE

We are looking for a Staff Design Engineer to join our Design team. This is a role for someone who has built a design system before, has strong opinions about what makes one great, and wants to do it again at a company where it genuinely matters. You will help define what design engineering looks like at Juniper Square: the standards, the systems, and the strategy for how design and engineering work together as both the team and the product grow.

This role sits in the Design organization. You will report to Design leadership and work across Design, Engineering, and Product. You are not here to execute on someone else's vision. You set the design system strategy, define how AI integrates into the design-to-engineering workflow, and establish what great UI quality looks like at scale.

This is still a deeply hands-on role. You will write code, build components, and prototype to prove out directions. The difference is that your execution sets the example
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ion code, but leading through judgment rather than throughput.

• Experience defining technical strategy for design tooling, developer experience, or design-to-engineering workflows.
• Experience thinking through how AI tools change team-level design and engineering workflows, and building systems or processes around that.
• Strong communication and influence skills: can align design leadership, engineering leadership, and product around a shared technical direction without formal authority.
• Fluency with AI-powered coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, v0.dev http://v0.dev, or equivalent) as part of your core workflow.

Preferred

• Experience in a complex B2B or enterprise SaaS environment, ideally in a data-heavy domain.
• Background leading design systems work that scaled across multiple product lines or engineering teams.
• Experience defining or operating AI-powered design-to-engineering workflows at a team or org level.
• Background in Financial Services, Investment Management, or Real Estate (Fintech experience is a plus).
• Familiarity with design tokens, component libraries, and variables in Figma at a systems level.

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 $190,000 - $240,000 USD. Base salary will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable.

Benefits include

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
• Life insurance
• Mental wellness coverage
• Fertility and growing family support
• Flex Time Off in addition to company-paid holidays
• Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies
• Retirement saving plans
• Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home
• Annual professional development stipend

Your recruiter can provide additional details about compensation and benefits.