--- title: 'Staff Design Engineer at Juniper Square' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-design-engineer-juniper-square-americas-usa-or-3zdn5fz0hjv3' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Staff Design Engineer at Juniper Square - **Company:** Juniper Square - **Location:** Americas Usa OR, Canada - **Compensation:** $170k–$210k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/junipersquare/ff074ccc-e040-4f65-9f6c-7c7d0ea2a3fc/application **Skills:** TypeScript, React, CSS, Figma, Code Editor, Design System, AI-powered coding tools, Cursor, Claude Code, Motion Design, Complex CSS/animation libraries, UI for Financial Interfaces, Dashboard Design > The Senior Design Engineer owns the quality bar for UI across the product suite, building production-grade implementations of designer concepts and creating systems that enable faster development with AI. This role involves collaborating with product designers and engineers to ensure consistent, high-fidelity delive... ## Job description ## 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 and informs the strategy, rather than being the primary output. Our product is genuinely complex. We serve investment managers navigating fund accounting, investor portals, and data-heavy reporting workflows. Building a design system that holds up against that complexity and gets adopted by the people who need to use it is the challenge. Making it feel clear, fast, and well-crafted is the job. AI fluency is a baseline expectation. You have formed opinions through direct experience on how AI changes team-level design-to-engineering workflows, and you are ready to build the systems and strategy around that. ## WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own the design system strategy and roadmap: define what the system needs to become, set priorities, establish governance, and build the contribution model that makes it sustainable as the team and product grow. - Define the AI enablement strategy for design-to-engineering: determine how AI tools are integrated into the workflow from prototype to production, and build the systems that make the whole team faster and higher-quality. - Set the technical direction for UI quality across the product: define what good looks like, establish the standards and processes that maintain it, and make the case for that standard across design and engineering leadership. - Identify systemic quality gaps: look across the product surface and name the patterns no one else is naming, then build the plan to address them. - Build the infrastructure that lets designers ship in code: not by doing it yourself, but by creating the workflows, tooling, and templates that make it a sustainable part of the design team's practice. - Partner with Design and Engineering leadership to shape the long-term direction of how the two functions collaborate, where the boundaries are, and how they evolve. ## QUALIFICATIONS Required - 10+ years of experience working across design and front-end engineering, with a portfolio that demonstrates both craft and leadership impact. - Proven experience building and scaling design systems: owning the roadmap, governance, and adoption strategy across a product organization, not just contributing components. - A strong, defensible point of view on what makes a great design system, backed by experience driving adoption across a product organization: not just building it, but getting designers and engineers to actually use it. - Deep front-end engineering skills (TypeScript, React, CSS) alongside genuine design taste. Comfortable reading and writing production 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. ## About Juniper Square ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Juniper Square provides a unified fund operating system and fund administration services that power operations for private market general partners (GPs). - **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; Total Funding $371M across 6 rounds) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services – specifically private markets technology and fund administration - **Target customers**: B2B – general partners (GPs) in private equity, venture capital, real estate, private debt, fund of funds, and wealth advisors; limited partners (LPs) - **Mission or purpose statement**: *“Our vision is to create a world with radically expanded opportunities for participation in the private markets.”* — Juniper Square ## Products & Services - **Juniper Square Platform (Fund Operating System)**: A connected software and data platform that centralizes fund operations – including fundraising, investor onboarding, fund accounting, treasury, compliance, reporting, and business intelligence. Serves 2,300+ GPs and 750,000+ LPs managing over $1 trillion in investor equity. - **JunieAI / GPX Agents**: AI-powered agents embedded in the platform that accelerate period-close, generate PCAPs, analyze GL variances, run continuous compliance checks, and flag exceptions. Designed for the “agentic era.” - **Headless GPX**: The same fund data model and workflow library exposed via MCP (Model Context Protocol), allowing AI tools like Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT to securely query fund data with full permissions and audit trail. - **Fund Administration Services**: Expert-led services for fund accounting, investor services, and treasury – offered alongside the software for firms that want a full-service operations partner. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $371M (as of latest round) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available in search results - **Growth Signals**: - Annual Revenue: $94.2M (LinkedIn estimate) - Headcount: 776 employees (+43.8% YoY, +289 people) - Operates in 8 countries (US, Canada, India, UK, France, Luxembourg, etc.) - Over 2,300 GPs and 750,000 LPs on the platform managing $1T+ in investor equity - Recognized as Forbes’ Best Startup Employer, Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Company, and Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ## Competitive Advantages - **Single source of truth** for all fund data – funds, assets, investors, and positions – eliminating silos. - **Workflow library** covering every stage from first close to final distribution, built over 12 years of encoding private markets operations. - **JunieAI & Headless GPX**: First-mover in enabling compliant, auditable AI access to private market data across any AI tool. - **SOC-1 and SOC-2 compliance** for security and access control. - **Unified software + services model**: Not just technology but a full fund operations partner, handling complexity at scale. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-first platform**: Extending the fund operating system into the “agentic era” with AI agents and headless APIs. - **Scaling fund administration**: Growing services alongside software to handle increasing complexity for GPs with large, diverse portfolios. - **Global expansion**: Already in 8 countries, likely to deepen presence in Europe and Asia. - **Product innovation**: Continued investment in data model, automation, and compliance workflows. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Juniper Square emphasizes “solve hard problems,” “think like an owner,” “better together,” and “sweat the details.” Employees are called “Junies.” - **Remote-First with Options**: Default mode is cloud-based remote work. Physical office in San Francisco for those who prefer hybrid; strong employee communities in New York, Seattle, Toronto, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles. - **Benefits**: Competitive salaries and equity, professional development stipends, learning & training programs, employee resource groups (ERGs), and periodic in-person gatherings. - **Growth Environment**: High headcount growth (+43.8% YoY) signals scaling opportunities. Internships and entry-level roles available in Engineering and Fund Administration. - **Awards**: Forbes’ Best Startup Employers, Inc. 5000, Deloitte Tech Fast 500 – indicators of strong employer brand. ## Sources 1. [junipersquare.com](https://www.junipersquare.com/) 2. [junipersquare.com/company](https://www.junipersquare.com/company) 3. [junipersquare.com/company/careers](https://www.junipersquare.com/company/careers) 4. [junipersquare.com/company/careers/life-at-jsq](https://www.junipersquare.com/company/careers/life-at-jsq) 5. 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