Senior Software Application Developer

Accountabilities: • Own architecture and technical direction for high-impact platform capabilities, balancing delivery speed, reliability, security, maintainability, and operating costs.

• Design and evolve scalable APIs, distributed services, and data flows using TypeScript, Node.js, Redis, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, and event-driven architecture.

• Lead development of AI-enabled product capabilities, including LLM integrations, retrieval and evaluation pipelines, orchestration, tool use, and human-in-the-loop controls.

• Establish AI-native and agentic SDLC practices covering specification-driven development, AI-assisted design and implementation, automated testing, code review, release validation, and incident investigation.

• Build evaluation and guardrail systems for AI-assisted workflows, addressing quality, safety, security, privacy, observability, cost, regression detection, and rollback.

• Set production-readiness standards across AWS services and cloud-native infrastructure, including CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, ECS, Lambda, and RDS.

• Drive secure-by-design engineering through OWASP-aligned practices, tenant isolation, data protection, secrets management, access controls, and compliance-aware decisions.

• Lead ambiguous, multi-team initiatives from technical discovery through rollout while clearly communicating trade-offs and technical rationale.

• Strengthen engineering excellence through architecture reviews, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD quality gates, reliability practices, and pragmatic documentation.

• Mentor engineers at different levels and contribute to technical roadmaps, hiring, engineering standards, and operating practices.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent depth of professional experience.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial experience designing and operating large-scale, customer-facing SaaS systems.

• Demonstrated technical leadership across teams, with the ability to influence architecture and engineering direction.

• Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, API design, distributed systems, and practical system architecture.

• Proven experience building or operating AI-enabled software in production, including LLM applications, RAG or retrieval systems, tool calling, workflow orchestration, evaluation, monitoring, and risk controls.

• Hands-on experience with AI-native or agentic software development workflows while maintaining human oversight, strong test coverage, security controls, and accountable engineering ownership.

• Strong experience with Docker or container platforms, GitHub, CI/CD, observability, and cloud security practices.

• Expert understanding of event-driven architecture, multi-tenancy, performance, reliability, and security, with the judgment to select simple and resilient solutions.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and trade-offs to diverse audiences.

• Coaching mindset and proven ability to increase team effectiveness through mentoring, technical standards, and collaborative leadership.

Benefits:

• CAD 110,000–140,000 compensation range.

• Fully remote work within a flexible environment.

• Company-paid benefits plan starting on day one.

• Generous professional development budget.

• RRSP/401(k) matching program.

• Half-day Fridays during the summer.

• Opportunity to work with a globally distributed team spanning multiple countries.

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