Who Can Apply
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada
Job Description
About the role:
Our client is building an exciting new AI-powered product and is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join as one of the foundational technical contributors. This is a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment where you'll have significant ownership over product development, architecture decisions, and technical direction.
The ideal candidate is a well-rounded engineer who enjoys wearing multiple hats, can work independently, and has experience building and scaling production applications from the ground up. You'll play a key role in developing AI-enabled applications, cloud infrastructure, APIs, and platform capabilities while collaborating within a small, highly agile engineering team.
What you'll do:
• Build and scale AI-powered products, APIs, and cloud platforms.
• Own architecture, infrastructure, and deployment practices.
• Develop AI workflows, integrations, and automation solutions.
• Drive platform reliability, performance, and technical innovation.
• Partner with stakeholders to deliver scalable business solutions.
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Required Skills & Experience
• 8+ years of experience within software engineering, or full stack development, building production-grade applications
• Experience building AI/LLM-enabled applications
• Experience building AI assistants, copilots, conversational interfaces, or AI-powered applications leveraging LLMs.
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and modern AI integration patterns
• Hands-on experience architecting and deploying cloud-native applications
• Strong understanding of system design, reliability, observability, and performance optimization
• Proven ability to independently own and deliver complex technical initiatives end-to-end
• Experience working in smaller engineering teams where engineers contribute across multiple disciplines
• Strong DevOps mindset and infrastructure ownership experience
Previous experience in startup, scale-up, or high-growth environments
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with FastAPI
• Experience with React and Python
• Technical leadership or mentoring experience
• GCP experience
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.