At a Glance
- Tasks: Build cutting-edge backend infrastructure for AI-driven chatbot solutions.
- Company: Join one of Canada's largest financial tech companies in downtown Toronto.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, paid holidays, and strong potential for contract extension.
- Other info: Collaborative, low-ego environment with great career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Shape intelligent conversational experiences and work with innovative technologies.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in backend development, proficient in Java and Kotlin.
The predicted salary is between 123750 - 151250 $ per year.
One of the country's largest financial technology companies is searching for an intermediate level
Backend Software Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team on a hybrid basis at their Canadian headquarters in downtown Toronto. In this role, you will build cutting-edge backend infrastructure for internal and customer facing chatbot solutions through conversational AI routing and high-scale data layers that connect enterprise applications to state-of-the-art LLMs.
You will drive core backend architecture, shaping the systems that power responsive, intelligent conversational experiences across massive user bases.
This exciting opportunity to develop and scale mission-critical conversational AI infrastructure begins as an
- 8-month T4 contract with strong extension potential, operating on a hybrid schedule
- (3 days onsite per week) in downtown
Toronto, ON .
You will collaborate within an innovative, low-ego engineering environment with ample opportunity for professional advancement, and you will be fully integrated with the team enjoying certain contractor perks including paid holidays .
Responsibilities
- Focus entirely on core backend platform and data architecture, with zero client-side or frontend responsibilities.
- Architect and develop high-throughput Java and Kotlin microservices that orchestrate requests between front-end interfaces and LLM/AI services.
- Manage routing and persistence layers for intelligent conversational workflows and internal expert assistance tools.
- Design and maintain resilient, production-ready relational database schemas to store dialogue histories and operational data at massive enterprise scale.
- Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced Dev Ops environment, taking end-to-end ownership from technical design to production deployment.
Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical work experience.
- 5+ years of professional backend software development experience, primarily in
Java .
- Hands-on experience developing services in
- Kotlin
(or strong desire and ability to work with Kotlin microservices).
- Solid proficiency with relational database systems ( RDBMS ) and SQL design for structured, scalable data storage.
- Proven track record delivering high-volume , mission-critical production platform services with an emphasis on low latency and reliability.
- Self-driven problem solver with strong ownership, capable of thriving in collaborative, low-ego enterprise engineering teams without requiring hand-holding.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience working within platform engineering or foundational infrastructure teams.
- Direct background integrating large language models (LLMs) or building conversational AI runtime and orchestration systems.
- Deep expertise in service discovery, API gateway design, and cloud-native microservice architecture.
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