Hybrid Full Stack Engineer – AI Lead

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About the role

  • Combine hands-on technical contributions with leadership responsibilities to set foundation for AI integration
  • Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions
  • Serve alongside Optix leadership to establish best practices and development standards
  • Guide the team's transition to AI-first development workflows and tooling
  • Collaborate with product leadership to translate business objectives into technical AI solutions
  • Design and build AI-powered features (intelligent sales widgets, automated message generation, predictive workflow optimization)
  • Architect scalable AI systems that integrate with existing automations platform
  • Implement evaluation frameworks to continuously improve AI feature performance
  • Identify opportunities to leverage AI across the platform for customer impact
  • Build technical foundation for conversational, agentic workspace management
  • Drive adoption of AI development tools and practices across the engineering team

Requirements

  • 5+ years full-stack development with modern frameworks
  • At least 3 years working with SaaS platforms
  • Demonstrable experience integrating AI into development workflows (code generation, QA, CI/CD, automated code reviews, intelligent testing)
  • Experience transitioning an existing team and large codebase to an AI-first development process
  • Excellent back-end or systems programming knowledge
  • Experience working with PHP/Laravel and MySQL
  • Experience building and scaling backend systems with REST/GraphQL APIs
  • Solid understanding of databases; data engineering experience a plus
  • 2+ years hands-on experience with AI APIs and production AI deployments
  • Experience with integration patterns for LLMs in existing application architectures
  • Experience with back-end tools like Git, unit testing, continuous integration and Linux command line skills
  • Able to clearly articulate the benefits of introducing AI into an existing development process in a secure and maintainable way
  • Empathetic and able to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
  • Bonus: Data engineering experience (ETL pipelines, vector databases, embedding management)
  • Bonus: Deployment expertise (Containerization, cloud platforms AWS/GCP, monitoring AI systems in production)
  • Bonus: Prior experience leading projects or mentoring engineers
  • Bonus: Knowledge of micro-services and event-driven architectures

Benefits

  • Competitive salary compensation and commission structure
  • Strong Employee Stock Option Plan offering
  • Excellent health and dental coverage program provided by Sunlife
  • Mission-driven workplace experience with a positive, collaborative and supportive team culture
  • Personal and professional growth opportunities
  • Healthy snacks and locally roasted coffee
  • Team lunches and socials
  • Annual health and fitness credit
  • Fun offsite activities
  • A beautiful, waterfront Gastown office and a flexible 60/40 hybrid workplace plan

Job title

Full Stack Engineer – AI Lead

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Senior

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Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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