Senior Software Developer

Vendasta Technologies, Inc.; Saskatoon; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vendasta is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join their AI team in Saskatoon. This role will involve designing and building scalable backend systems that enable AI workflows for small businesses. With a collaborative environment, you'll work with cutting-edge technologies and be at the forefront of AI innovation, making a real impact. Competitive benefits and the opportunity to shape the AI future await the right candidate.

Benefits

Competitive health benefits

Flex time

Annual work-from-anywhere options

Equity opportunities

Vibrant workplace culture

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience, ideally in high-scale SaaS or AI-enabled platforms.
• Deep curiosity about AI's potential and a pragmatic mindset for shipping real products.
• Enthusiasm for helping to build an elite technical team in Saskatoon.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend systems to power AI workflows and digital employees.
• Implement integrations with LLM frameworks like Langchain on Google Cloud Platform.
• Drive improvements in performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and observability.

Skills

Fluency in modern languages like TypeScript

Experience with modern APIs and microservice architectures

Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure

Familiarity with AI / LLM tooling and frameworks

Strong collaboration across disciplines

Agile teamwork experience

Clean code practices

Job description

Are you passionate about building intelligent systems that transform how businesses work? Do you want to be part of something transformative, right here in Saskatoon?

Vendasta is assembling a world-class AI team, and were looking for a Senior Software Developer to help build the backbone of an AI-first future. Youll work with cutting-edge technologies like Google Cloud, Langchain, MCP, and TypeScript along with numerous AI model Vendors to help shape a platform that empowers small and medium businesses (SMBs) with AI employees : digital workers that deliver real impact.

Don't worry, we're not only shipping AI to our customers, it's integrated into all of our developer workflows which include tools like Gemini, Cursor, ChatGPT, and Claude Code. Our teams work in a Scrum Agile environment with full support from a strong SRE group to ensure reliable operations.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Developer at Vendasta, youll help design, architect, and scale our AI-driven platform and services. Youll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, AI researchers, and product managers to turn ambitious ideas into production-ready solutions. Our goal is to create AI-powered software that actually does the work : engaging customers, generating content, answering calls, and more.

Were moving fast and making bold bets. This role is ideal for someone eager to build deeply technical systems that unlock real-world AI outcomes for businesses around the world.

What Youll Do

• Design and develop scalable backend systems to power AI workflows and digital employees
• Implement integrations with LLM frameworks like Langchain on Google Cloud Platform
• Shape and extend our platform to support real-time, multi-modal, model agnostic AI interaction at scale
• Work with data engineering and product teams to operationalize high-quality SMB datasets for AI features
• Mentor other developers and help define engineering standards in a fast-evolving AI stack
• Drive improvements in performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and observability of our AI features
• Lead technical discussions around prompt orchestration, inference infrastructure, and service architecture

What You Bring

• 4+ years of software development experience, ideally in high-scale SaaS or AI-enabled platforms
• Fluency in modern languages like TypeScript, Python, or Go
• Experience with modern APIs and microservice architectures
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (bonus if it's Google Cloud!), and CI / CD best practices
• Familiarity with AI / LLM tooling and frameworks (e.g., Langchain, vector databases, prompt orchestration)
• Experience working in agile teams, writing clean code, and collaborating across disciplines
• A deep curiosity about AI's potential and a pragmatic mindset for shipping real products that work
• Enthusiasm for helping to build an elite technical team in Saskatoon, with the opportunity to shape it from the ground up

Why Vendasta?

Were on a mission to build the most trusted AI-powered platform for small businesses and the partners who support them. At Vendasta, youll be part of something ambitious : helping bring AI transformation to local businesses at scale.

As a team member, youll enjoy :

• Competitive health benefits, flex time, and annual work-from-anywhere options
• Equity opportunities and a chance to directly shape our AI future
• A vibrant workplace culture that embraces experimentation, thought leadership, and continuous learning
• A place where building AI isnt just a buzzword, its the core of everything we do

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Senior Software Developer • Saskatoon, SK, Canada