Software Engineer, AI & Automation - Canada

NerdWallet
Canada
Workplace: RemoteFull timeCAD 123,000 - 188,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Working through ambiguity","Independent problem solving"]

Build production software and AI-enabled systems within Security to make security engineering more scalable, effective, and developer-friendly. You’ll design AI-enabled workflows (including multi-agent systems), retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search, automated code review, and production Python APIs/services with strong architecture, testing, and observability. Work with integrations across GitHub, Slack, Jira, and Confluence while improving AI system quality and handling real production tradeoffs.

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NerdWallet
NerdWallet
4 months ago

Software Engineer, AI & Automation - Canada

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Job Summary

Build production software and AI-enabled systems within Security to make security engineering more scalable, effective, and developer-friendly. You’ll design AI-enabled workflows (including multi-agent systems), retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search, automated code review, and production Python APIs/services with strong architecture, testing, and observability. Work with integrations across GitHub, Slack, Jira, and Confluence while improving AI system quality and handling real production tradeoffs.
Location: Canada
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build AI-enabled security workflows and multi-agent systems for processes like design review, threat modeling, policy Q&A, and vulnerability analysis.
  • •Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search experiences across large code and documentation repositories.
  • •Create automated code-review capabilities to detect insecure patterns and improve software quality earlier in the development lifecycle.
  • •Develop production Python services and APIs that power AI-enabled security workflows, including architecture, authentication/authorization, testing, observability, and reliability.
  • •Operate scalable pipelines to ingest, process, index, and retrieve code, documents, and events; evaluate and improve AI system quality in production.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 123,000 - 188,000 annually
Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeavePaid SabbaticalRetirement

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production software.
  • •Strong Python proficiency, including hands-on experience building production backend services and APIs.
  • •Experience designing maintainable backend architectures (validation, authentication/authorization, error handling, testing, observability).
  • •Hands-on experience with distributed/cloud systems and making practical tradeoffs for scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • •Hands-on experience building production AI-enabled applications or automations using LLM APIs/agents and RAG/retrieval, plus defining and improving AI system quality in production.
Experience:3+ yearsSecurityAI-enabled applicationsBackend servicesCloud systems
Skills:CommunicationWorking through ambiguityIndependent problem solving
Tech Stack:PythonLLM APIsAgentsRetrieval-augmented generationRAGSemantic searchGitHubSlackJiraConfluence

Company Brief

NerdWallet
NerdWallet provides personal finance guidance, comparison tools, and financial product recommendations (credit cards, mortgages, insurance, loans) to help consumers and small businesses make informed money decisions via content, calculators, and advisory services.
Industry: Publishing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 500M to 1B
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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