Backend Developer in Toronto

Overview: Guidepoint seeks an experienced AI Engineer as an integral member of the Toronto-based AI team. The Toronto Technology Hub serves as the base of our Data/AI/ML team, dedicated to building a modern data infrastructure for advanced analytics and the development of responsible AI. This strategic investment is integral to Guidepoint’s vision for the future, aiming to develop cutting-edge Generative AI and analytical capabilities that will underpin Guidepoint’s Next-Gen research enablement platform and data products. This role demands exceptional leadership and technical prowess to drive the development of next-generation research enablement platforms and AI-driven data products. You will develop and scale Generative AI-powered systems, including large language model (LLM) applications and research agents, while ensuring the integration of responsible AI and best-in-class MLOps. The AI/ML Engineer will be a primary contributor to building scalable AI/ML capabilities using Databricks and other state-of-the-art tools across all of Guidepoint’s products. Guidepoint’s Technology team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal application architecture and create new AI-enabled products to optimize the seamless delivery of our services. This is a hybrid position based in Toronto. What You'll Do: Architect and Build Production Systems: Design, build, and operate scalable, low-latency backend services and APIs that serve Generative AI features, from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to complex agentic systems. Own the AI Application Lifecycle: Own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI-powered applications, including system design, development, deployment (CI/CD), monitoring, and optimization in production

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer in Test to join our Identity Management Engineering (IDM) team serving the Privileged Access Team (PAM). This team is passionate about delivering large-scale, mission-critical software in a fast-paced Agile environment. In this role you'll be working with a team of highly-skilled and talented engineers, responsible for delivering sophisticated backend solutions that help Okta reliably operate at large scale and be highly available. As part of the team, you’ll be ensuring projects are completed with the highest quality and reliability using automation at every level for fast, robust and secure releases. Job Duties and Responsibilities: Review requirements and design specs to develop relative test plans and test cases Automate API tests, end-to-end tests, reliability/scale tests Work with engineering management to scope and plan engineering efforts Communicate and document QE plans for scrum teams to review Review application code, identify bug and other areas of weakness, architect tools for future coverage Automate all critical features to maintain zero-debt cadence Release features with solid quality Respond to production issues/alerts and customer issues during on-call rotation Be a strong customer advocate with a strong quality DNA. Requirements: 5+ years of QE experience preferably in an enterprise SaaS company 3+ years experience in quality engineering for enterprise level software. 5+ yea

About the Role: As a Staff Software Engineer on the ML Infrastructure team, you will collaborate closely with the Machine Learning and Product teams to build world-class machine learning inference platforms. These platforms power essential services like personalized recommendations, search, and content understanding across Tubi. A core responsibility of this team is developing and maintaining low-latency ML model serving systems that support Deep Learning, LLM, and Search models. This involves building self-service infrastructure and critical components such as the inference engine, feature store, vector store, and experimentation engine. You will improve the way we deploy and operate our services and even contribute to open-source projects. This role grants the architectural freedom to explore new frameworks, lead critical cross-functional projects, and transform the capabilities of our ML and Product teams. Responsibilities: Design and build scalable, high throughput, and low latency distributed systems using Scala Build reusable components and services that serve various ML applications like Personalization, Search, Ads and Exploration Partner closely with ML engineers to understand their challenges and limitations and develop scalable solutions to address them. Proactively recommend solutions to keep our ML Inference stack state of the art. Take a data driven approach to identifying & optimizing latency, cost, and efficiency of our infra. Lead large scale cross functional refactorings if necessary Mentor other engineers on the team on system design, effective incident management, interviewing, leveraging LLMs for work, etc. Collaborate with ML, Product, and cross functional engineering teams to define the long term vision and architecture for ML Infrastructure at Tubi. Your Background: Experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems in any modern backend language (e.g., Scala, Java, Python, Go, C++); experience with Scala or JVM b

Who We Are At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. Our Values If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Who You Are You are self-driven and like to work with others to remove roadblocks. You are curious and love to explore and learn new technologies. You have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy, and maintain large-scale, complex applications. You care more about solutions and impacting the customer experience than using a particular tool or framework. About the role: You will join a small, highly autonomous cross-functional team to build AI agents that fundamentally transform how operations work at scale. Instead of writing bespoke software for every workflow, we are developing an agent platform that can read operational knowledge, reason about it in context, and execute tasks end-to-end. This approach allows us to scale complexity through knowledge and reasoning, rather than simply through code. This is an opportunity to join a foundational team, which currently consists of fewer than five engineers. The work spans critical areas including LLM-powered agent design, robust backend service architecture, tool and integration development, and sophisticated knowledge infrastructure. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a strong pas

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. We are looking for experienced backend software engineers to join our claims tech engineering team. Our vision is to tangibly reduce risk on the Lyft platform, and by extension reduce insurance cost. Our team is dedicated to centralizing the entire claims operation onto a unified risk platform. This consolidation of data, workflows, and communications aims to foster proactive measures, enhance efficiency, ensure consistency, and provide valuable insights. These efforts are designed to effectively reduce claims costs as Lyft's operations expand. Additionally, our team is responsible for maintaining robust relationships with our third-party insurance partners, guaranteeing timely, proactive, and precise sharing of claim data. Responsibilities: Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Own feature from product spec to successful high quality development, deployment and maintenance Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Respond to external questions and requests. Unblock, support and communicate with stakeholders to achieve results Experience: 3+ years of relevant professional experience Experience with object-oriented programming Experience in distributed systems Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL Write clear, scalable and clear design documentation Design, build and improve a set of team owned components Benefits: Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits Mental health benefits Family building benefits Child care and pet benefits Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Safety and Customer Care (SCC) team at Lyft manages over 1.7 million monthly human and AI interactions and serves as Lyft's primary direct touchpoint with riders and drivers. We handle critical infrastructure that powers both human associates and AI agents to make riders and drivers feel safe and comfortable while riding or driving with Lyft, transforming every support interaction into a moment of genuine connection. Agentic AI is at the center of how we scale that mission. We fine-tune and align open-source models, build AI-powered support agents, and develop end-to-end AI agents for safety case management, systems that reason over complex, high-stakes cases and drive them to resolution. SCC brings together ML, data, backend, and product engineers alongside data scientists and operations partners to transform these systems. As a Machine Learning Engineer on the SCC team, you will fine-tune and align models and build AI Agents that power how riders and drivers get help. Your work spans the full loop: post-training open-source models for our domain, composing them into multi-step agents, and building the evaluation that proves they are safe to ship in a customer-facing, safety-critical setting. Post-train and adapt open-source LLMs for SCC use cases using SFT, LoRA, and preference-tuning methods (RLHF, RLAIF, RLVR). Design and build AI-powered support agents and end-to-end agents for safety case management using LangGraph or equivalent agentic frameworks. Own the evaluation data flywheel, offline and online, that defines what "good" looks like and build benchmarks for the team to hill-climb. Turn interaction feedback into training data and learning signals, closing the data flywheel that continuously improves the models. Responsibilities: Conduct literature review and build post-training fra

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Driver team is dedicated to fostering a platform of high-quality service by empowering drivers to perform their best. We are looking for a product-minded engineer who wants to build and improve products that sit at the center of the core driver experience. Products you drive will solve pain points that matter most to drivers by streamlining key interactions, reducing friction, and creating systems that feel intuitive, fair, and supportive. As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers. Responsibilities: Design and implement backend features end-to-end with clear ownership, delivering well-scoped work from technical design through to production with moderate guidance from senior engineers Write clean, reliable, well-tested code that meets team standards and holds up in code review Participate actively in code reviews, giving specific and constructive feedback while continuing to develop your own review instincts Debug and resolve issues across backend services including performance bottlenecks, reliability problems, and data integrity issues Collaborate with product managers, designers, and partner engineering teams to clarify requirements and surface technical constraints early Contribute to technical discussions and help evaluate implementation approaches for new features Write unit and integration tests for your own code and develop familiarity with the team's broader testing and observability practices Address technical debt and make incremental improvements to existing services as part of regular development work Participate in on-call rotations, respond to production incidents, and support teammates in mitigating custome

About the Role: The team is responsible for building and optimizing the UI/UX across all Web and OTT applications at Tubi. The team primarily focuses on implementing features related to user acquisition and growth, including but not limited to user registration, onboarding, SEO, and account management. As part of this team, you will work closely with Product and Design to develop cutting-edge, experiment-driven features that enhance the user experience. In addition to front-end development, you’ll be responsible for building the underlying technical architecture to ensure performance and scalability, while proactively exploring engineering-driven features and experiments that can drive user growth. You will be working with React, Node.js, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and CDN infrastructure to build and deploy high-performance applications that reach millions of users. This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office two days/week. What You'll Do: Work with product management and other stakeholders (Backend, Product, and UI/UX) to iterate on new growth-related features, including registration, onboarding, and SEO. Lead the technical architecture and implementation of scalable and resilient applications that run on multiple platforms, such as web, mobile web, and smart TV devices. Lead and drive innovation in building experiment-driven features that push the boundaries of user experience in streaming. Consistently ship features and improvements across Web and OTT apps with minimal guidance, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact updates. Identify and implement improvements in shared UI components, platform-specific optimizations, and overall front-end infrastructure. Take ownership of the codebase and proactively identify opportunities for refactoring and development process improvement. Mentor and collaborate with fellow engineers, sharing technical expertise and contributi

About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! Senior Staff Backend Engineer About the Team We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance, enabling go-to-market agility. Our engineering organization includes multiple product application teams responsible for delivering core customer-facing capabilities. We are seeking a Senior Staff Backend Engineer to join our application teams and help set technical direction across multiple domains within engineering. You'll work alongside staff, senior, and early-career engineers, and partner closely with engineering leadership to define, evolve, and scale the systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows. This is an opportunity to own complex, multi-domain technical problems and shape product direction beyond a single team. We are low on meetings, high on accountability. Most of the teams are in the EST time zone, but we have a few located in AST, PST, and Central as well. What you'll be doing You will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our application stack across multiple domains. You will lead development efforts for our most complex initiatives, the kind that span two or more teams or product areas, and serve as a technical benchmark for system design, code quality, and long-term maintainability. You'll operate at the intersection of data modelling, business logic, and enterprise-scale reliability, and your work will often set standards that neighboring teams adopt. This remains a hands-on

Engineering Manager, AI Conversation Platform Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The newly formed Conversation Platform team aims to build a conversation platform for all merchants who use Stripe. We are doing so by (a) automating the easy tasks, and (b) assisting our users in the difficult tasks. Some examples include customizing the Stripe landing page to suggest bespoke integrations, allowing users to command the Stripe API in natural language, and resolving user issues automatically. We are developing RAG based systems on the latest LLMs as well as fine-tuning our own models. We’re an end-to-end team going from ideas to models to shipping in production. What you’ll do Responsibilities Driving an ambitious vision for AI/ML that benefits our users Setting the technical & process direction for the team based on business goals Brainstorm and coordinate product integrations with partner teams Proposing new ideas and building prototypes Be an integral part of a larger ML community internally & externally Hire & develop a world-class team to deliver high-quality ML systems. Coach engineers to help them grow in their careers and maintain a high bar Who you are We are looking for ML Engineering Managers who are passionate about using ML to improve products and delight customers. You have experience leading teams that develop streaming feature pipelines, build ML models, and deploy them to production, even if it involves making substantial changes to backend code. You a

Engineering Manager, AI Conversation Platform Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The newly formed Conversation Platform team aims to build a conversation platform for all merchants who use Stripe. We are doing so by (a) automating the easy tasks, and (b) assisting our users in the difficult tasks. Some examples include customizing the Stripe landing page to suggest bespoke integrations, allowing users to command the Stripe API in natural language, and resolving user issues automatically. We are developing RAG based systems on the latest LLMs as well as fine-tuning our own models. We’re an end-to-end team going from ideas to models to shipping in production. What you’ll do Responsibilities Driving an ambitious vision for AI/ML that benefits our users Setting the technical & process direction for the team based on business goals Brainstorm and coordinate product integrations with partner teams Proposing new ideas and building prototypes Be an integral part of a larger ML community internally & externally Hire & develop a world-class team to deliver high-quality ML systems. Coach engineers to help them grow in their careers and maintain a high bar Who you are We are looking for ML Engineering Managers who are passionate about using ML to improve products and delight customers. You have experience leading teams that develop streaming feature pipelines, build ML models, and deploy them to production, even if it involves making substantial changes to backend code. You a

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. We are looking for a software engineer to join our fast-growing team with a focus on scalability, reliability, and enhancing the core building blocks of the product. In this role you will: Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM. Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform. Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns. Delight our customers by providing world class UX using our React-based design system Design and build APIs that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure. Work on backend components written in Go and frontend components written in React. You might be a good fit if you: Have 3-5 years of software development experience with a background in Golang or similar programming languages. Proficient in React or similar front-end UI stacks. Experienced working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies. have the ability to complete a feature end to end from designing database models to backend APIs and frontend UI components. Experienced working with any cloud provider such as AWS, GCP or Azure. Thrive in a collaborativ

About the Role: Join us in shaping the future of streaming. Tubi is a free, ad-supported streaming service with a mission to make entertainment accessible to everyone. We serve millions of viewers with a massive library of movies, TV shows, live channels, and personalized recommendations, all without a subscription. As streaming continues to evolve, Tubi is building the technology, product experiences, and platform capabilities that help people discover and enjoy content effortlessly across every screen. If you’re excited by consumer-scale mobile engineering, high-quality user experiences, and the opportunity to impact how millions of people watch entertainment, we’d love to meet you. This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office two days/week. About the team: The Android team at Tubi builds the app experience that millions of users rely on to discover, browse, and watch content. We care deeply about performance, stability, accessibility, and thoughtful product execution. Our work spans core playback experiences, content discovery, personalization, onboarding, advertising experiences, and the mobile platform foundations that help teams ship quickly and safely. As a Senior Android Engineer, you will design, build, and deliver high-quality product features for Tubi’s Android app. You’ll work closely with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, QA, Data, and other client teams to create intuitive, reliable, and scalable mobile experiences. You’ll also help guide technical direction, improve engineering standards, mentor other engineers, and contribute to the long-term health of our Android codebase. This is a role for someone who enjoys building polished consumer products, solving complex technical problems, and raising the bar for Android engineering. What you’ll do Build elegant, performant, and reliable Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android development practices Lead the full l

About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the Team Engineers on this team construct our rules-based calculating engine for processing sales commissions. This might sound simple if you have never been exposed to sales comp plans, it is not! We are low on meetings, high on accountability. Most of the team are in EST time zone but we have a few located in PST and Central as well. We are far from maintenance / progressive evolution in many areas, there is a lot of room to make a big impact in the overall design. What you’ll be doing Reporting to the Manager of Data Platform, you will play a critical role in the evolution of our Spark based data platform. You'll lead development efforts for our complex, data-rich platform features while being an example to the team of code quality and thoughtful software design. You will be working on the most challenging code at Forma. As a Staff Engineer, you are expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and trust. This includes proactively identifying architectural risks, surfacing edge cases or constraints others may not see, and advocating for improvements that strengthen the long-term integrity of the system. We value engineers who bring forward thoughtful perspectives - even when they challenge assumptions - and who help the team see around corners. You will: Design and evolve backend services that power product workflows. Architect data models representing hierarchical & graph structures, relationships, and large-scale enterprise datasets. Build

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