Senior Software Engineer, Data (AI)

Juniper Square•,

21h•$185,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are building a next-generation intelligent data platform for private markets - a greenfield initiative that will reshape how financial data is ingested, normalized, validated, enriched, and distributed across a complex ecosystem. This is a foundational role on a small, high-caliber team working at the intersection of modern data engineering and applied AI. As a Senior Software Engineer, Data, you will own the end-to-end delivery of core pipeline components: schema mapping, data normalization, validation, enrichment, and distribution to downstream systems. You will write production code every day, work closely with Staff engineers on meaningful architectural decisions, and help build the technical standards and practices the broader team will grow into. This role is for someone who executes with high craft and speed, is fluent in agentic development as a first-class part of their workflow, and wants the challenge of building something genuinely new.

Requirements

4–7 years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production systems end-to-end
Strong backend engineering fundamentals - backend services, data pipelines, and API design; we will ask you to walk through systems you personally built
Hands-on experience with data pipeline or data warehouse engineering: ETL/ELT patterns, schema design, normalization, and data distribution
Production experience building with LLMs - prompt design, model integration, and output validation in real systems
Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows; you use these tools daily and evaluate their output critically
Experience with AWS data infrastructure; Redshift experience a plus
Strong written communication - able to document technical decisions clearly for engineering and product audiences
Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code and outputs, including identifying failure modes and regressions

Nice To Haves

Experience with RAG pipelines, vector stores (e.g., OpenSearch, pgvector), or document extraction systems
Background in financial services data - familiarity with fund administration, investment data schemas, or institutional reporting workflows is a meaningful differentiator
Experience building data products for external customers, not just internal tooling
Familiarity with evaluation frameworks for AI outputs: deterministic checks, cross-model comparison, or human-in-the-loop review patterns

Responsibilities

Build and ship production-quality implementations of data normalization, schema mapping, validation, enrichment, and distribution pipelines for a net-new intelligent data warehouse
Write clean, well-tested, performant code across backend services, data pipeline logic, and API integrations
Take end-to-end ownership of features from design through deployment, with accountability for correctness and reliability in production
Work closely with Staff engineers to shape the architecture of a modern, AI-native data warehouse serving institutional financial clients
Bring thoughtful input on schema design, normalization approaches, and API patterns - and execute those decisions with precision
Identify and raise technical risks early; propose and implement solutions rather than waiting to be directed
Use agentic coding tools and LLM-assisted development as your primary workflow - this is how the entire team operates
Critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, edge cases, and regressions - shipping quality output regardless of how it was produced
Contribute to the team's evolving practices around AI-accelerated development and testing
Build and maintain data validation checks, monitoring, and observability tooling that keeps pipelines trustworthy at scale
Participate in on-call and production support, diagnosing and resolving data quality issues quickly and thoroughly
Write and maintain clear technical documentation for the systems you build