Staff Fullstack Engineer, AI Acceleration Team
Staff full-stack engineer leading zero-to-one development of AI identity features, including agent authorization and phishing-resistant access. The role requires architectural expertise, Java and JavaScript/TypeScript proficiency, AWS experience, and the ability to raise team-wide engineering standards.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Define authorization models for AI agent actions and enforce least privilege on behalf of users.
- Build phishing-resistant authentication and authorization for people and AI agents.
- Shape product outcomes by understanding customer needs and defining solutions.
- Own product quality and technical outcomes.
- Make architectural decisions for scalable distributed systems and complex API integrations.
- Advance AI usage across the software development lifecycle, including design, review, and shipping.
- Coach engineers and raise the team’s technical bar.
- Drive improvements in CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, support, and technical debt.
- Maintain a direct connection between engineering work and customer outcomes.
Requirements
- Ability to work autonomously, identify priorities, and operate effectively in ambiguity.
- Proficiency applying AI tools across the software development lifecycle and evaluating development tooling.
- Proven experience designing scalable backend architectures and integrating complex APIs with modern web technologies.
- Strong understanding of web authentication, authorization, authentication flows, and sensitive-data protection.
- Deep expertise building reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software in Java or another type-safe language.
- High proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and the ability to build robust frontends.
- Strong cloud architecture fundamentals and experience designing and operating large-scale AWS services.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working on a zero-to-one, startup-like team.
- Experience leading teams through changes such as AI adoption, new developer tooling, or cultural shifts.
- Familiarity with identity and access management tooling.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: $160,000–$220,000 CAD.
- Equity, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, RRSP matching, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave, including PTO and parental leave, may be provided in accordance with applicable plans and policies.
Skills
Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS, Vercel, Distributed Systems, API Integrations, Authentication, Authorization, CI/CD, Observability, IAM
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