Senior Software Engineer

Forum Ventures
Ottawa
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5-8 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Ownership","Problem-solving","Bias for shipping","Technical communication","Curiosity"]

Design, build, and scale production backend systems for an AI-powered insights platform that turns large-scale social media conversations into actionable results in under two minutes. Own core backend architecture while collaborating with product and data science, contributing full-stack as needed. Work with LLM pipelines, agent orchestration, and statistical systems, improving reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability across cloud infrastructure in a fast-moving early-stage environment.

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Forum Ventures
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Senior Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Design, build, and scale production backend systems for an AI-powered insights platform that turns large-scale social media conversations into actionable results in under two minutes. Own core backend architecture while collaborating with product and data science, contributing full-stack as needed. Work with LLM pipelines, agent orchestration, and statistical systems, improving reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability across cloud infrastructure in a fast-moving early-stage environment.
Location: Ottawa
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, robust APIs, and agentic workflows.
  • •Build and improve product experiences using modern web technologies, bridging backend data with intuitive interfaces.
  • •Work with LLM pipelines, agent orchestration, and statistical systems to process large streams of organic data.
  • •Improve system reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability across cloud infrastructure.
  • •Collaborate cross-functionally to clarify requirements, evaluate technical trade-offs, and make pragmatic architecture decisions.

Key Requirements

  • •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 like MongoDB and analytical data formats like Parquet.
  • •Experience building, scheduling, and monitoring pipelines using Astro / Apache Airflow and Langchain.
  • •Practical understanding of distributed systems, including microservices and message queues/event streaming (e.g., Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, or Kafka).
Experience:5-8 yearsAILLM
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:OwnershipProblem-solvingBias for shippingTechnical communicationCuriosity
Tech Stack:PythonRubyGoJavaMongoDBParquetAstroApache AirflowLangchainLLMCeleryRedisRabbitMQKafkaMicroservicesReactTypeScriptAzure

Company Brief

Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm, accelerator, and community that invests in and builds B2B SaaS and AI startups, operating pre-seed and seed funds plus an AI venture studio and accelerator programs for founders.
Industry: Venture Capital
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2014
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