Staff Software Engineer: High-Performance Data & AI Workflows

Mhrootcellar; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-First

Syndio Equity

20 days annual leave

Private Medical coverage

Voting leave

Job summary

Syndio, a leader in pay governance and compensation intelligence, is seeking a Staff Software Developer for the Essentials team. You will own high-performance data workflows and agent tooling to scale complex analyses while ensuring correctness and observability.

This remote-first role welcomes candidates from Calgary and requires strong autonomy and cross-team collaboration. Expect to work with Python, Go, TypeScript, Postgres, and Redis, shaping testing, performance, and agent-based workflow

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional hands-on experience as a software engineer.
• Deep experience with complex, distributed, service-based systems.
• Proven performance and scale work on large datasets.
• Orchestration experience with workflows and messaging systems.
• Strong testing, end-to-end and integration testing skills.
• High autonomy and ability to drive outcomes in a high-stakes environment.
• Cross-team collaboration and ability to translate technical constraints to business language.
• Based in Calgary and legally authorized to work in Alberta.

Responsibilities

• Own high-performance data workflows from ingestion to reporting for large datasets.
• Design for reliability, partial failure and observability across long-running pipelines.
• Build agent tooling to enable AI agents to run Essentials workflows with evaluation gates and human review points.
• Lead testing, observability, and performance standards across the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

Python

Go

TypeScript

CI/CD

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Playwright

Cypress

Job description

Syndio, a leader in pay governance and compensation intelligence, is seeking a Staff Software Developer for the Essentials team. You will own high-performance data workflows and agent tooling to scale complex analyses while ensuring correctness and observability.

This remote-first role welcomes candidates from Calgary and requires strong autonomy and cross-team collaboration. Expect to work with Python, Go, TypeScript, Postgres, and Redis, shaping testing, performance, and agent-based workflow