junior
junior8mo ago

Backend Engineer

United StatesUnited States·New Yorkfull-timemid
EngineeringBackend Developer
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Quick Summary

Overview

👶 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.

Technical Tools
javascriptnextjspostgresqltypescriptdistributed-systems

Junior is building the AI operating system for investment research. Our software helps private equity firms, consultants and financial institutions complete high-stakes research workflows dramatically faster - from diligence and memo writing to market mapping, research synthesis and strategic analysis.

We’re trusted by several of the world’s top private equity firms, Big Four consultancies and leading financial institutions.

  • Bootstrapped and profitable

  • $25M+ in revenue after growing 10x last year

  • 60+ people across the company

  • 23-person engineering team, growing to 40+ this year

  • Core stack: TypeScript, Next.js and PostgreSQL

You’d be joining early enough to shape the product, engineering culture and company, but with enough traction that everything you build lands immediately in front of demanding, paying customers.

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll help build and scale the systems that power our AI-driven research platform. This is a systems-level role - ideal for engineers who love thinking about data flows, orchestration, and performance across complex distributed systems.

You'll have the unique opportunity to:

  • Ship quickly

Nice to Have

~1 min read
  • Billing, payments, usage-based pricing, or financial workflows

  • Internal infrastructure / dev tools at startups

  • Data pipelines, workflow orchestration, or event-driven systems

  • Retrieval, embeddings, or prompt orchestration

What We Offer

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All the usual benefits (competitive pay and equity, private healthcare etc). Unusual benefits:

✓Gym membership
✓In-office cook
✓Summers working in Greece by the beach

If you're excited about the opportunity to drive innovation at Junior, we'd love to hear from you! Email us at careers@myjunior.ai with your resume and a brief introduction. We can't wait to meet you! 🙌

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
New York, United States
On-site at the office
Who can apply
US

Listing Details

Posted
January 21, 2026
First seen
May 7, 2026
Last seen
September 26, 2026

Posting Health

Days active
143
Repost count
0
Trust Level
20%
Scored at
September 27, 2026

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