Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
AltaML
Software Engineering
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Oct 23, 2025
About Us:
AltaML is a leading North American applied AI company with extensive experience in building and operationalizing AI software solutions.
We are a company like no other – we believe in making small bets, failing fast, and being better together. We are looking for creative problem-solvers who obsess about the customer to find wins across different industries.
We don’t hire for fit; we hire to add. We are looking for people who play our core values of being: Agile, Gritty Humble, and Happy. If you’re passionate about AI/ML, thrive in a dynamic environment, and want to work with a diverse team of wickedly smart people, we want to hear from you!
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, with a strong machine learning passion. In this role, you will own technical delivery end-to-end, from shaping the architecture of ML-powered applications to leading implementation across cloud services, APIs, and modern front-end frameworks.
You will act as the technical backbone of your project pod, balancing hands-on development work with technical leadership, architectural decision-making, and client-facing collaboration. You’ll lead epic-level solution design, mentor developers, contribute to shared internal frameworks, and help shape how we evaluate and deploy emerging technologies. This is a hybrid role that requires regular in-office attendance at our Toronto office.
You will thrive in this role if you are:
- A builder at heart: equally comfortable spinning up prototypes quickly as you are scaling production-grade systems.
- A strong communicator who can translate between business requirements and technical realities.
- A decision-maker who brings clarity to ambiguous technical challenges.
- Excited by ML-enabled product development and eager to bridge software engineering with intelligent automation.
Responsibilities
- Reduced Project Risk: Technical risks on projects are significantly reduced through proactive ownership of epic-level technical design, execution, and cross-team dependency resolution.
- Improved Technical Decision-Making: The team makes better technology choices through thorough research, evaluation, and documentation of potential solutions.
- Stronger Client Confidence: Client and stakeholder confidence is increased by leading technical discovery sessions and acting as a technical SME during project discussions.
- Feature & Epic Implementation: Leads implementation for features spanning multiple user stories or services.
- Architecture & Solution Design: Leads the architecture design for moderately complex solutions, often involving multiple services or systems, and chairs technical reviews.
- Mentorship & Technical Leadership: Provides technical leadership within the pod, mediates code review disputes, contributes new features to shared AltaML libraries and assists in the hiring process by conducting technical interviews. Coordinating the work of other engineers.
- Client Engagement & Discovery: Leads technical discovery sessions with clients to clarify requirements and define technical scope.
- Testing & Quality Strategy: Implements higher-level testing strategies, such as integration tests for deployed solutions.
Requirements
- Degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Software Development, or similar
- 4+ years of experience as a full stack developer
- Proven skills at taking ideas from conception to production
- Strong working experience with Cloud Services (Ideally Azure)
- Strong working experience with React
- Strong working experience with Python
- Strong working experience writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
- Experience Unit and API testing (eg. xUnit, Postman, or others)
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Experience with Docker
- Proficiency with Version Control systems (VCS)
Nice to Have's:
- Experience with cloud-based document processing and intelligence tools such as Azure Document Intelligence
- Experience with serverless computing and workflow orchestration frameworks such as Azure Durable Functions
- Experience with rapid prototyping tools and taking solutions from 0 to 1
- Experience developing applications using an LLM/ML APIs
- Experience with technologies like LangChain, Autogen, and VectorDBs
- Experience building plugins/integrations on third-party platforms
- Experience with Azure Cloud platform to build and deploy products
- Build functional prototypes to test ideas and hypotheses quickly, ensuring fast iteration and feedback cycles.
If you are a highly skilled and motivated Senior Full Stack Developer with experience in building SaaS solutions and possess the technical skills mentioned above, we would love to hear from you. Join our team and be part of an exciting and innovative company that is dedicated to delivering cutting-edge web applications to our customers.
Responsible AI (RAI)
AltaML employees, contractors, and associates must be trained and well-versed in the importance of Responsible AI and empowered to enact RAI principles by developing and deploying AI solutions. They should also be empowered to raise and escalate RAI concerns as required.
AltaML is responsible for elevating public discourse and awareness of AI through open, transparent communications with the broader public.
Equal Opportunities
AltaML is dedicated to fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive workplace as an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds, encompassing ethnicity, religion, disability status, gender identity, sexual orientation, family status, age, nationality, and educational backgrounds. If you are invited for an interview and require accommodations during the interview process, please don’t hesitate to let us know.
AltaML acknowledges that its head office is located on Treaty 6 territory, and respects the histories, languages, and cultures of First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continues to enrich our vibrant community.
We Look for A-Players Who:
- Express our core values
- Are hungry for knowledge
- Want to learn new skills
- Are respectful
- Collaborate with others across the whole company
- Share knowledge with coworkers
- Educate and promote AI and ML concepts both internally and externally
- Have a high work ethic and are self-motivated
Our Perks:
🌴Uncapped Vacation - For all full time, permanent employees. Seriously, take the time you need - when you need it.
🚀Make an Impact - Witness the impact your work contribution has on the success of our company.
👩🏿💻Working with PhD and Master Level Colleagues - Endless conversations around the latest in Machine Learning and Applied AI.
🩺Competitive Benefits - For all full time, permanent employees.
🏢 Office as a Resource - Hybrid work environment with state-of-the-art office spaces that ignite collaboration.
⚡Big Slack Energy - IYKYK.
Our Culture:
You will be working in a high-paced environment focused on creating unique ML solutions to problems across multiple industries to generate impactful value. You will be working at a company with employees who have multiple years of industrial and academic experience in data science, software engineering, product development, and machine learning fields.
You will be able to experience a collaborative company culture, which means we believe in working hard, getting the job done, and enjoying the group social on Fridays. You’ll also get flexibility in where you work, what hours you work, how much vacation you take, and what you wear. We expect hard work but respect work/life balance.
Core Values:
At AltaML, we are driven by our core values. We believe that by embodying these values in everything we do, we will exceed our customer’s expectations while creating a positive and empowering work environment for our team members. We are dedicated to living our values and strive to make them the foundation for our success.
Gritty - We are entrepreneurial, determined, and resilient, pushing through challenges to achieve our goals.
Agile - We make decisions based on “little bets” creating a safe space to take risks. We embrace an interactive process, allowing ideas to fail quickly or be scaled iteratively. Together, we continuously refine and improve our approach to reach the desired outcome.
Humble - We listen to data, embrace new ideas, admit limitations and take ownership to solve problems. We constantly push ourselves to improve and excel.
Happy - We ignite passion and purpose by fostering a dynamic work environment. We encourage tap dancing to work, common sense over rules, empowering team members to find joy in their contributions, and being your authentic self.
