Senior Software Engineer
Designs and scales AI-driven backend systems for real-time social media analytics, focusing on agentic workflows, LLM pipelines, and cloud infrastructure to deliver actionable insights.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Ottawa
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade software
- Strong backend development experience with Python, Ruby, Go, Java, or similar
- Hands-on experience with document databases (e.g., MongoDB) and analytical data formats (e.g., Parquet)
- Experience building, scheduling, and monitoring pipelines using Astro/Apache Airflow, LangChain, etc.
- Practical understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and message queues/event streaming (e.g., Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, software architecture, performance optimization, and scalable data-intensive systems
- Familiarity with deploying and monitoring applications in cloud environments (Azure preferred)
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent deep practical experience
Nice to have
- Experience with React and TypeScript
Full description
Company Description
askpolly transforms large-scale human conversation into actionable insights. By leveraging AI and patented statistical models to analyze organic social media data, askpolly provides near-instant, statistically valid insight into market reactions, election outcomes, and messaging strategy. We are moving beyond traditional polling to give teams an agentic interface that delivers actionable results in under two minutes - empowering data-driven decision-making at the speed of conversation.
Role Description
Weʼre looking for a Senior Software Engineer with 5 - 8 years of professional experience to help design, build, and scale the production systems behind askpollyʼs AI-powered insights platform. This is a full-time role based in Ottawa, ON, operating on a hybrid schedule (4 days per week in-office).
In this role, youʼll own core backend architecture while contributing full-stack when needed, collaborating closely with product and data science teammates. You will take ownership of complex features from problem definition through production delivery. You should thrive in an early-stage environment where requirements can be ambiguous, trade-offs matter, and shipping reliable, data-intensive software quickly is paramount.
What youʼll do
- Architect & Build: Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, robust APIs, and agentic workflows.
- Full-Stack Collaboration: Build and improve product experiences using modern web technologies, bridging complex backend data with intuitive interfaces.
- AI & Data Scale: Work directly with LLM pipelines, agent orchestration, and statistical systems to process massive streams of organic data.
- Drive Standards: Improve system reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability across our cloud infrastructure.
- Collaborate & Lead: Work cross-functionally to clarify product requirements, evaluate technical trade-offs, and make pragmatic architecture decisions.
- Leverage Modern Workflows: Thoughtfully utilize AI tools to accelerate development velocity, elevate code quality, and optimize internal loops.
Qualifications
- Experience:5–8 years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade software.
- Core Stack: Strong backend development experience with languages such as Python, RubyGO, Java or similar.
- Workflow Orchestration: Experience building, scheduling, and monitoring pipelines using .