Software Engineer Vision & Automation

Micromart; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail technology company in Toronto seeks a Software Engineer specializing in vision and automation for their innovative smart store platform. The role involves designing automation systems, enhancing operational efficiency, and hands-on work with hardware. Suitable candidates will have experience with production software systems and strong programming skills in Python or C++. The company offers competitive salaries, benefits, and a hybrid work environment, contributing to the fast-paced evolution of unattended retail systems across Canada.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Monthly fitness or wellness stipend

Meals provided when working from the office

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and owning production software systems.
• Experience iterating on systems based on operational feedback.
• Willingness to work hands-on with hardware and real-world systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation for order completion.
• Improve operational efficiency through better tooling and video processing.
• Own systems end to end, from design to deployment.

Skills

Production software systems

Software engineering fundamentals

Python or C++

Computer vision systems using OpenCV

Real-world constraints

Tools

OpenCV

ffmpeg

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Location: Toronto (Hybrid. In office required regularly due to hardware access.)

This is a systems-focused role working on applied computer vision in production environments. The role is open to intermediate and senior engineers, with scope and ownership scaled based on experience.

About Micromart

Micromart is building the platform for unattended retail. We empower entrepreneurs to turn any location into a retail opportunity, from offices and condos to gyms, hotels, and other shared spaces. Our focus is on giving entrepreneurs powerful tools that are simple to use, while delivering a fast, intuitive shopping experience for shoppers.

Often described as Shopify for physical commerce, Micromart provides the infrastructure that powers unattended retail in the real world.

Our Team

Micromart launched just over a year ago and is now used in thousands of locations across North America. We’re a small and growing team working closely across product, platform, and smart store systems, from design through production.

Work here is end to end. That means thinking through problems, making pragmatic tradeoffs, shipping code, and improving systems over time. As we scale, there’s real ownership, real impact, and room to grow.

How you can help

As a Software Engineer, Vision & Automation, you’ll help evolve the systems that determine how orders are completed when customers shop at a Micromart smart store.

As Micromart scales, we’re evolving how orders are completed, introducing more automation while maintaining a high bar for accuracy and trust. This role focuses on building the systems that make that possible, balancing efficiency, reliability, and real-world constraints.

This is a systems-focused role at the intersection of software, vision, hardware, and operations. It is not a research role and not focused on training models in isolation. The core challenge is designing reliable decision systems that work in real physical environments.

At Micromart, you will

• Design and build interaction-based automation for order completion, grounded in structured product layouts and physical context
• Improve operational efficiency through better tooling, video processing, and contextual signals
• Build confidence and thresholding logic to decide when automation is appropriate and when to fall back safely
• Work primarily in a cloud-first architecture, with selective edge processing for privacy, security, and real-time needs
• Collaborate on hardware-related decisions, including camera placement, camera count, and compute tradeoffs
• Work hands-on with physical systems and real-world data to understand failure modes and edge cases
• Apply vision and automation techniques across system reliability, security, privacy, operational workflows, and in-cabinet experiences
• Instrument and measure systems using metrics such as accuracy, efficiency, latency, and automation coverage
• Own systems end to end, from design and implementation through deployment and iteration in production

What you bring to the team

• Strong experience building and owning production software systems
• Solid software engineering fundamentals and sound architectural judgment
• Comfort working through ambiguity and real-world constraints
• Ability to reason across software, data, and physical systems
• Experience building computer vision systems using OpenCV
• Strong programming experience in at least one systems or scripting language such as Python or C++
• Experience iterating on systems based on operational feedback and measured outcomes
• A bias toward simplicity, clarity, and long-term maintainability
• Willingness to work hands-on with hardware and real-world systems in the office

Nice to have

• Experience with video processing or image analysis pipelines
• Familiarity with tooling such as ffmpeg or similar media frameworks
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Experience applying ML models to real-world vision pipelines (training, inference, evaluation, iteration)
• Experience with human-in-the-loop or automation systems
• Exposure to edge computing, IoT, or hardware-adjacent software
• Experience working with cameras, sensors, or real-time event systems
• Background in startups or small teams where ownership mattered more than process

Our Values

We’re driven by ambitious, mission-focused thinking and a deep commitment to earning customer trust. We value craftsmanship, simplicity, and quality, and we’re intentional about how we build, the tradeoffs we make, and the problems we choose to solve.

We believe in getting things done thoughtfully, improving continuously, and working closely together to build a great product.

Why Micromart

You’ll work on systems that operate in the real world and matter every day. Your work will directly impact the scalability, reliability, and long-term evolution of unattended retail systems used across thousands of locations.

We believe software should empower people to build real businesses in the physical world. Micromart exists to give entrepreneurs practical, durable tools to create opportunity where people live and work, and your work will directly support that.

This year marks a major growth phase for Micromart. We’ve achieved a lot with a very small team, built the core smart store product and the platform that powers it, and are now focused on scaling, shipping new product capabilities, and raising the bar on product quality and our technical stack. If you enjoy owning real systems and pushing them to the next level, there’s a lot to dig into.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and equity
• Health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents
• Monthly fitness or wellness stipend
• Hybrid work environment, with access to our Toronto office
• Meals provided when working from the office
• Centrally located downtown office near Union Station

Micromart is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.