Founding AI Platform Architect

Karbon Digital Limited; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Docufy AI is seeking a Founding Engineering Lead to steer architecture, product execution, and AI platform development. You’ll write code, review architecture, and mentor engineers, then hire and scale the team as the company grows. You’ll balance speed with quality and partner with founders from day one.

Join a startup that builds enterprise AI-powered document intelligence, offering equity and a chance to shape the platform from the ground up with senior leadership exposure.

Qualifications

• Experience building production software at startup speed.
• Led technical architecture decisions and roadmaps.
• Collaborated with founders and cross-functional teams.
• Mentored engineers and scaled engineering teams.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall technical architecture and engineering roadmap.
• Lead development of AI-powered document intelligence products.
• Design scalable cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems.
• Build reliable LLM pipelines, Agentic workflows, RAG, and orchestration services.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability, and performance.

Skills

Agentic AI systems

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Evaluation frameworks

AI observability

Python

FastAPI

REST APIs

Event-driven architectures

Distributed systems

Redis

Background job processing

AWS & GCP

Docker

Terraform

Monitoring and logging

Security best practices

Tools

Docker

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Redis

Job description

Docufy AI is seeking a Founding Engineering Lead to steer architecture, product execution, and AI platform development. You’ll write code, review architecture, and mentor engineers, then hire and scale the team as the company grows. You’ll balance speed with quality and partner with founders from day one.

Join a startup that builds enterprise AI-powered document intelligence, offering equity and a chance to shape the platform from the ground up with senior leadership exposure.