Staff AI Software Engineer — Backend & Agentic LLMs

Engg; British Columbia; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual learning budget

Volunteer time off

Flexible working hours

Hybrid/remote-friendly

Job summary

Safe Software is seeking a Staff Software Developer - AI Products to lead backend work on FME AI Service, AI Assist Plugin, and future AI offerings. You will design and operate production services, build agentic workflows, and drive experiments from idea to shipped improvement.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, QA, and customer experience teams, own technical decisions, mentor engineers, and help reduce latency while improving assistant quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• At least 7 years of experience working on production backend systems.
• Proven track record leading technically ambiguous projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and build server-side services and APIs (FastAPI).
• Design and build modular agentic workflows to augment the FME platform capabilities.
• Stay up to speed with developments in AI and LLM tooling, and incorporate relevant ideas into our products.
• Participate in every aspect of the development cycle, including shaping specifications with the product owner, developing clean and maintainable code, writing unit and integration tests, doing code reviews, and maintaining and improving existing code.
• Collaborate, support, and share expertise with other team members.

Skills

Agentic LLM apps

Experimentation mindset

Strong communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

FastAPI

LangChain

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Safe Software is seeking a Staff Software Developer - AI Products to lead backend work on FME AI Service, AI Assist Plugin, and future AI offerings. You will design and operate production services, build agentic workflows, and drive experiments from idea to shipped improvement.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, QA, and customer experience teams, own technical decisions, mentor engineers, and help reduce latency while improving assistant quality.