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187 active opportunities · Updated October 2026

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$108K/yr

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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

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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C$188K – C$242K/yr

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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

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📍 Toronto, Canada
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -86.7%
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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

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $180K/yr

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The Public Sector software engineers (SWEs) create the core product building blocks forward-deployed teams use to develop agentic capabilities that function across multiple domains. SWEs responsibilities include building the systems required to ingest and process federal datasets to support real-time decision-making in contested environments. We develop novel agentic enabling capabilities that includes: Create multi-layered guardrails around agents Optimize data retrieval for agents Orchestrate fleets of asynchronous agents Automatically alerts users to deviations in data Illustrating how an agent reached a decision As a Software Engineer, you will own the development of a vertical feature or a horizontal capability to include defining requirements with stakeholders and implementation until it is accepted by the stakeholders. You will: Design and implement scalable backend systems for Federal customers using cloud-native AI infrastructure. Build features for agentic systems including multi-layered guardrails and data retrieval optimization. Develop data pipelines and machine learning infrastructure to make data sources accessible by agents. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute backend solutions for secure environments. Participate in customer engagements to understand requirements and deliver technical solutions. Define requirements with stakeholders and implement features until they are accepted. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for the Federal business. Ideally you will have: Full Stack Development: Proficiency in front-end, back-end development and infrastructure, including experience with modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $184K/yr

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Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, Frontier AI Infrastructure to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will own the model inference layer - enabling state of the art models, debugging the latest AI tools, managing networking, debugging latency, and tracking pricing/usage metrics for AI models. You will lead technical discussions on the frontlines with cloud vendors and customers to deliver on critical contracts and to debug platform issues. You will also work upstream with Product to understand features before they break, moving us from "infra-only debugging" to proactive integration testing. You will: Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure. Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product. You will work with Product to build integration tests that catch issues early, shifting the focus from "infra-only debugging" to preventing failures upstream. Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings. Must have: At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance Ideally you'd have: Full Stack Development: Proficiency in both front-end and back-end development, including experience with modern web develo

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $184K/yr

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Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, ARC (Architecture, Reliability, & Compute) to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will define how the company ships software, establishing the patterns for deploying into complex government and high-security environments, rather than just running Terraform scripts. You will build and maintain internal CLIs/tools that standardize testing, deployment, environment management and are tools that engineering relies on to prevent downstream breakages. You will execute on automated deployment efforts to pay down tech debt, creating fully functional staging/testing environments, and defining the company's standard for safe deployments. You will: Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure. Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components. Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute the vision for backend solutions, ensuring they meet the unique needs of government agencies operating in secure environments. Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings. Must have: At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance Ideally you'd have: Full Stack Development: Prof

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$185K – $210K/yr

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#Team Nextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com . Meet Your Future Neighbors As a Software Engineer at Nextdoor, you’ll work across multiple phases of software development life cycle within a project to design, implement, and maintain the core backend systems that power the Company’s feed infrastructure. At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs. We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London. The Impact You’ll Make If you want the challenge of fast-paced growth, the satisfaction of seeing your design work come to life, and the pride in helping grow a world-class design team, this is the place for you. Your responsibilities will include: You’ll actively collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, data scientists, and other backend engineers to understand the needs of the users and define the technical requirements for new features, improvements, and bug fixes You’ll monitor the performance of the feed infrastructure to identify bottlenecks and resolve issues in a timely manner

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $1.6M/yr

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About the Team DoorDash’s GenAI Platform team sits within Machine Learning Platform and builds the shared infrastructure that helps DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo teams safely bring GenAI-powered products, agents, automation, and personalization to production. Our mission is to increase the velocity of business impact from GenAI. A central pillar of that work is our evaluation platform — the unified evals backbone that lets teams measure, trace, and trust the quality of LLM and agent systems across the company, powering trace/score ingestion, LLM-as-judge workflows, agent simulations, and LLM observability for the tens of millions of daily requests flowing through our LLM Gateway. We also own core platform surfaces including the Agent Gateway, open-weights model serving and batch inference, guardrails, and cost attribution. About the Role You will join a small, high-leverage team building production infrastructure for Generative AI at DoorDash, with a primary focus on our evals and LLM observability platform: the systems that let teams evaluate, trace, and continuously improve the quality of LLM and agent products. You’ll work across evaluation frameworks and SDKs, OpenTelemetry-based trace/score ingestion, LLM-as-judge and offline/online eval pipelines, agent simulations, data pipelines, backend services, and observability. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building reliable measurement and quality primitives in a fast-moving technical area where product needs, model capabilities, vendor ecosystems, and evaluation methodologies are evolving quickly. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Build the infrastructure that helps DoorDash teams move GenAI ideas from prototype to production, increasing the velocity of business impact from AI across the company. Work on our unified evals platform — evaluation SDKs, OpenTelemetry trace/score ingestion, LLM-as-judge, offline and online eval pipelines, and agent simulations — alongside the LLM Gatew

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -86.7%

From C$108K/yr

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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. To fulfill Lyft’s mission of creating the real-time transportation network of the future, Lyft needs engineers from a scope of disciplines. We need engineers to help us intelligently scale our backend infrastructure, to increase pricing in real time given localized supply and demand data, to predict future localized demand, to create delightful and intuitive UX flows for passengers and drivers, to improve our cloud infrastructure orchestration and monitoring, to increase dispatched driver-passenger pairings based on real-time data and real-world edge cases, to build tools to increase the efficiency of our customer service team, and more. You're an enthusiastic and experienced app developer looking to take your skills to the next level by joining our iOS team. You’re excited about scaling millions of lines of Swift code and hundreds of mobile developers. Our app is used by millions of people, and we take great pride in our work. This means excellent development practices, careful code architecture, and an organization built around rapid releases. Our codebase is written entirely in Swift with modern design patterns and coding standards. We rely on 3rd party libraries and contribute back to the community (including the Swift language itself). Responsibilities Help establish roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices Performing thoughtful code reviews for colleagues, and help others by conducting high-quality code reviews Participate in hiring activities: take part in technical interviews, live coding, share detailed feedback to hir

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$150K – $240K/yr

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Location: San Francisco, CA (Remote/Hybrid Available) What is Verse? The race to AI has become the race to power. Every breakthrough in artificial intelligence depends on one thing: access to electricity. But across the country, aging grid infrastructure and years-long interconnection queues are slowing the deployment of the data centers that will power the next generation of innovation. Solving this challenge isn't just about energy—it's about unlocking the future of AI. At Verse, we're building the energy intelligence platform for the AI economy. Our software helps the world's largest energy consumers achieve faster, cheaper, and cleaner power by combining real-time control of energy assets with complete visibility into their energy portfolio. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, GV, Coatue, and NVIDIA, and built by pioneers in grid-scale batteries, energy markets, and enterprise software, we're redefining how the world's most ambitious organizations access and manage energy. The Role As a Software Engineer focusing on Distributed Systems at Verse, you will work in collaboration with some of the brightest industry experts in the field building cloud-native applications that scale to trillions of data points collected from electricity markets globally. You will be a part of a dynamic, robust team primarily supporting the backend needs of our Aria software product spanning hundreds of data sources, sinks, services, and jobs. Your expertise will not only have a direct impact on product decisions, but you also be well-positioned to drive the development and trajectory of our entire platform and infrastructure and influence important architectural decisions that affect the whole organization. Key Responsibilities Foster a culture and mindset of well-designed systems, test-driven software, and transparent communication with a high caliber of mutual respect and consideration for stakeholders Read and write a lot of Go, Python, and Protobuf Build, test, debug, maint

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$150K – $240K/yr

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Location: San Francisco, CA (Remote/Hybrid Available) What is Verse? The race to AI has become the race to power. Every breakthrough in artificial intelligence depends on one thing: access to electricity. But across the country, aging grid infrastructure and years-long interconnection queues are slowing the deployment of the data centers that will power the next generation of innovation. Solving this challenge isn't just about energy—it's about unlocking the future of AI. At Verse, we're building the energy intelligence platform for the AI economy. Our software helps the world's largest energy consumers achieve faster, cheaper, and cleaner power by combining real-time control of energy assets with complete visibility into their energy portfolio. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, GV, Coatue, and NVIDIA, and built by pioneers in grid-scale batteries, energy markets, and enterprise software, we're redefining how the world's most ambitious organizations access and manage energy. The Role You will be a member of the technical staff developing product experiences for our Dispatch Intelligence users – customers who want and have battery energy storage systems for additional energy cost savings or faster interconnection times. In this role, you will serve in a “full stack” capacity designing, building, and maintaining frontend and backend components of our energy storage suite of applications. We use Typescript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Radix/ShadCN, Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Vitest, and Storybook with Echarts and D3/Observable for data visualization for our frontend, and Cloudflare Pages for hosting and content delivery. We rely on identity and auth platforms like Clerk for sign-in flows. Our backend is written in Go and Python with Postgres/AlloyDB and blob storage for data persistence. Key Responsibilities Foster a culture and mindset of well-designed systems, test-driven software, and proactive communication with a high degree of transparency, mutual resp

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$240K – $270K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing You will be responsible for developing elegant and responsive user experience using the latest front-end technologies. You'll own substantial pieces of the product, from design to launch Working with our product, UX design, and backend development teams, you will develop new features and technologies that make our product experience awesome and radically simplify the user experience for non-technical users You will leverage your technical expertise in front-end application development in the creation of novel visualizations for structured and unstructured data and develop new techniques for improving the performance and interactivity of the application Use modern frontend frameworks like React, GraphQL, TypeScript and Node.js Qualifications We Need 10+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software An eye for great design and a passion for building products that provide a great user experience The ability to make the right trade-offs between functionality and delivery speed that supports delivering value to customers, all the while iterating based on feedback and roadmap priorities Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong computer science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Experience building software capabilities for analyzing large scale data web applications Prior ex

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$170K – $235K/yr

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About the Role Sigma Computing is redefining business intelligence by making complex data analysis accessible through a high-performance platform built for the modern data stack. The Compiler Team plays a foundational role in this mission by transforming user-driven spreadsheet interactions into highly optimized SQL queries, enabling seamless exploratory analytics on cloud data warehouses. As a member of the Compiler Team, you will join a group of engineers dedicated to building the core systems and abstractions that power Sigma’s intuitive spreadsheet interface, ensuring speed, reliability, and scalability for all users. What You Will Be Doing Tackle core challenges at the intersection of data modeling, query compilation, and large-scale interactive analytics—making it possible for end-users to query data warehouses efficiently without deep technical knowledge Design, build, and maintain sophisticated compiler infrastructure and intermediate representations that translate spreadsheet operations into optimized query plans Apply advanced optimization strategies to improve performance and accuracy across a wide range of query workloads and data architectures Contribute to both backend (Rust) and key frontend foundations (TypeScript), evolving critical abstractions that enable end-to-end workflow optimizations and new features Debug, analyze, and resolve complex issues, ensuring robustness and maintainability in a rapidly evolving product Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders to review designs and code, driving technical best practices and architectural decisions throughout the team and company Qualifications We Need 5+ years experience engineering high-quality software systems Demonstrated success building and maintaining complex infrastructure or core platform services Deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, particularly in compilers, algorithms, SQL Optimization Passion for teamwork, technical ownership, and continually

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$170K – $240K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing You will be responsible for developing elegant and responsive user experience using the latest front-end technologies. You'll own substantial pieces of the product, from design to launch Working with our product, UX design, and backend development teams, you will develop new features and technologies that make our product experience awesome and radically simplify the user experience for non-technical users You will leverage your technical expertise in front-end application development in the creation of novel visualizations for structured and unstructured data and develop new techniques for improving the performance and interactivity of the application Use modern frontend frameworks like React, GraphQL, TypeScript and Node.js Qualifications We Need 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software An eye for great design and a passion for building products that provide a great user experience The ability to make the right trade-offs between functionality and delivery speed that supports delivering value to customers, all the while iterating based on feedback and roadmap priorities Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong computer science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Experience building software capabilities for analyzing large scale data web applications Prior exp

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $216K/yr

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The Public Sector software engineers (SWEs) create the core product building blocks forward-deployed teams use to develop agentic capabilities that function across multiple domains. SWEs responsibilities include building the systems required to ingest and process federal datasets to support real-time decision-making in contested environments. We develop novel agentic enabling capabilities that includes: Create multi-layered guardrails around agents Optimize data retrieval for agents Orchestrate fleets of asynchronous agents Automatically alerts users to deviations in data Illustrating how an agent reached a decision As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the development of a vertical feature or a horizontal capability to include defining requirements with stakeholders and implementation until it is accepted by the stakeholders. You will: Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend systems and distributed architectures for Federal customers. Manage the full lifecycle of feature development from requirement definition to deployment on classified networks. Direct the orchestration of asynchronous agent fleets to meet mission requirements. Lead customer engagements to translate mission needs into technical requirements. Own the communication with stakeholders to ensure implementation meets defined acceptance criteria. Conduct technical reviews and identify risks within machine learning infrastructure and model serving. Drive the platform roadmap by providing technical specifications for Federal product offerings. Ideally you will have: Full Stack Development: Proficiency in front-end, back-end development and infrastructure, including experience with modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and contai

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