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Junior

Backend Engineer

New York, NY Posted 2026-01-21
Type
Full-time
Source
Ashby
👶 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 30+ based in London, NYC and Sydney. We 10x’d our revenue in 2025.

You can read more about the company mission & values here https://myjunior.notion.site/join-junior-2026?source=copy_link.

💡 ROLE DESCRIPTION

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

- 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 reliability and observability, helping us evolve our database (Postgres / ClickHouse) and job orchestration systems.

- Prototype new backend capabilities (retrieval pipelines, caching layers, async task queues) that let us build faster and smarter.

- Shape our engineering culture



🔥 ABOUT YOU

We're looking for product-minded backend engineers who:

- Based in NYC, ***we are 5 days a week in person

- Are excited by the intersection of AI infrastructure and systems design

- Have experience leading projects end-to-end

- Are eager to contribute to product decisions

- Are proficient in our tech stack: Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL

- Feel like you are never building fast enough

Bonus points for experience working on:

- Retrieval/embeddings/prompt orchestration

- Built internal infrastructure / dev tools @ startups

🌵 BENEFITS

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

📩 HOW TO APPLY

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