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Juniper SquareStaff Design Engineer
Juniper Square operates as an operations partner for private markets, offering a platform that unifies data, technology, and fund administration services for general partners. The company…
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Juniper Square operates as an operations partner for private markets, offering a platform that unifies data, technology, and fund administration services for general partners. The company is seeking a Staff Design Engineer to join its design organization and lead the strategy for design systems, tooling, and workflows. This hands-on position requires writing code, building components, and prototyping while shaping how design and engineering collaborate. The chosen candidate will define UI…
Job Description
Juniper Square operates as an operations partner for private markets, offering a platform that unifies data, technology, and fund administration services for general partners. The company is seeking a Staff Design Engineer to join its design organization and lead the strategy for design systems, tooling, and workflows.
This hands-on position requires writing code, building components, and prototyping while shaping how design and engineering collaborate. The chosen candidate will define UI quality standards, establish design system governance and adoption models, and integrate artificial intelligence into design-to-engineering workflows. The role suits an experienced professional with deep front-end engineering expertise and strong design sensibilities who can tackle complex enterprise and data-heavy software challenges.
Responsibilities
- Own the design system strategy, roadmap, priorities, governance, and contribution model
- Define the artificial intelligence enablement strategy for design-to-engineering workflows from prototype to production
- Establish technical direction and standards for user interface quality across the entire product
- Identify systemic quality gaps across product surfaces and build plans to resolve them
- Create workflows, tooling, and templates that enable designers to ship production code sustainably
- Partner with design and engineering leadership to shape long-term functional collaboration and evolution
Requirements
- Have ten or more years of experience working across design and front-end engineering
- Demonstrate proven experience building and scaling design systems and driving organizational adoption
- Possess deep front-end engineering skills including TypeScript, React, and CSS alongside strong design taste
- Have experience defining technical strategy for design tooling, developer experience, or workflows
- Bring experience evaluating how artificial intelligence tools change team-level design and engineering processes
- Show strong communication and influence skills to align leadership across departments without formal authority
- Demonstrate fluency with artificial intelligence-powered coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or v0.dev
Qualifications
- Experience working in a complex business-to-business or enterprise software-as-a-service environment, ideally with heavy data domains
- Background in leading design systems that scaled across multiple product lines or engineering teams
- Experience defining or operating artificial intelligence-powered design-to-engineering workflows at a team or organizational level
- Background in financial services, investment management, real estate, or fintech
- Familiarity with design tokens, component libraries, and variables in Figma at a systems level
Core Skills
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision care for employees and their families
- Life insurance coverage
- 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 work and technology setup at home
- Annual professional development stipend
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What is the salary range for the Staff Design Engineer role?
The United States base salary range for this position is $190,000 to $240,000 per year, determined by candidate experience, skillset, location, and local minimum pay requirements.
What is the remote work policy for this position?
The posting lists the employment type and remote status as remote, and mentions that Juniper Square offers a variety of work arrangements ranging from fully remote experiences to working in physical offices.
What level of experience is required?
Candidates must have 10+ years of experience working across design and front-end engineering, with a portfolio showing craft and leadership impact, as well as proven experience building and scaling design systems.
What additional compensation and benefits are included?
In addition to base salary, compensation includes equity, health, dental, and vision care, life insurance, mental wellness coverage, retirement savings plans, flex time off, and a professional development stipend.
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