Senior Backend Engineer

About Junior

We’re building cutting-edge LLM-powered workflow tools to supercharge investment research for private market investors. Our clients include most of the global top 10 private equity and consulting firms - Junior already powers hundreds of billions of dollars invested annually. We’re a profitable, bootstrapped company with a growing team of 40+ based in London, NYC and Sydney. We 10x’d our revenue in 2025.

You can read more about the company mission & values here.

You’ll design and build the systems that support our you’ll help build and scale the systems that power our AI-driven research platform along with our commercial, product, and operations teams — automating workflows, improving decision‑making, and enabling the company to move significantly faster.

This is a high‑ownership backend engineering role (~4+ years experience) where you’ll work across data pipelines, integrations, automation, and internal infrastructure.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Architect and scale backend systems that support high‑throughput LLM interactions, vector search, and multi‑agent orchestration.
• Stitch together AI infrastructure across model providers, data stores, and internal APIs to create cohesive, performant systems.
• Own the architecture of internal data systems and pipelines
• Build automation and integrations across product, CRM, and financial systems
• Help shape engineering culture and internal infrastructure decisions

Customer Health Intelligence System

• Design data pipelines that consolidate product usage, CRM data, and user feedback into a unified system of record.
• Build automated signals and alerts that detect churn risk, usage drops, or emerging product issues - enabling the team to act quickly.

User Feedback → Product Development Pipeline

• Build internal tooling that processes feedback calls with users.
• Use LLMs to extract themes, cluster feature requests, and surface the most important insights to the product team.

Billing & Revenue Infrastructure

• Design systems to support complex B2B pricing models — combining usage‑based, seat‑based, and platform fees.
• Automate invoicing, reconciliation, and financial reporting.

Internal Data Platform

• Build and own our internal data platform, integrating product telemetry, CRM data, and financial systems.
• Create reliable pipelines and APIs that power reporting, automation, and decision‑making across the company.

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer who enjoys building systems that make a company run better.

You might be a good fit if you:

• Are based in London and excited to work from our Farringdon office (5 days/week)
• Have experience owning technical projects end‑to‑end
  , from architecture through production
• Enjoy translating business problems into clean technical systems and automation
• Like building high‑leverage internal platforms that make teams dramatically more efficient
• Have strong experience with PostgreSQL and modern data platforms (Snowflake, Big Query, Databricks, Firebolt, etc.)
• Write production code in Python, or Type Script
• Thrive in fast‑moving startup environments and enjoy shipping quickly while maintaining strong engineering standards

Bonus

• Experience building AI‑enabled workflows, automation systems, or internal developer platforms
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• Private health insurance
• Third Space membership
• Dinner when working late
• Frequent team offsites (Crete, Upstate NY, Cancun)