Senior Full Stack Engineer, AI

Big Viking Games

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Big Viking Games building AI-enabled products and workflows. Responsible for end-to-end feature ownership and leveraging AI for game production.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeToronto • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 CA$120,000 - CA$150,000 per yearWebsite

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Hard Skills

TypeScriptNode.jsReactNext.jsSQLPostgresdata modelingAPI designworkflow orchestrationgit

Soft Skills

strong product judgmentstrong engineering judgmentcommunication skillsindependencehigh ownershippractical mindsetability to translate goalsability to work with stakeholdersability to improve qualityability to make technical decisions

Tools & Technologies

AI coding agentscontent-generation systemsdata pipelinesproduction systemsinternal toolsreview systemsdeployment practicestesting practicespull request reviewobservability tools

Industry Keywords

full stack applicationsgame production workflowsstructured generation workflowshuman-in-the-loop reviewproduction experienceschema designquery performancedata integritystaged processingaudit trails

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptNext.jsNode.jsPostgresReactSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, test, and maintain full stack applications that support AI-enabled game production workflows.
Own features end to end, including data modeling, backend logic, API design, frontend implementation, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
Build structured generation workflows that produce reliable, reviewable outputs from AI models.
Create human-in-the-loop review systems so teams can steer, approve, reject, edit, and improve generated content.
Translate ambiguous creative or operational goals into clear specifications, scoped plans, and production-ready systems.
Build internal tools that improve speed, consistency, visibility, and quality across content production workflows.
Partner with engineering, product, design, art, live operations, and leadership to understand workflow pain points and build practical solutions.
Implement approval steps, audit trails, retries, staged processing, idempotency, and other patterns required for reliable production systems.
Use AI coding agents and assistants as part of your daily workflow, while maintaining strong engineering judgment and code quality.
Review generated code, model outputs, workflow logic, and product behavior with a high bar for accuracy and usability.
Improve system reliability, observability, documentation, maintainability, and developer experience.
Contribute to a practical AI-first engineering culture focused on speed, quality, and measurable business impact.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Several years of experience shipping production full stack web applications.
Strong TypeScript and Node.js experience.
Production experience with React, Next.js, or similar modern frontend frameworks.
Strong SQL and Postgres experience, including schema design, query performance, data integrity, and relational modeling.
Experience owning features or products end to end, not just working on one layer of the stack.
Strong product and engineering judgment, with the ability to identify when output is wrong, incomplete, fragile, or subtly off.
Experience turning ambiguous goals into clear specs, technical plans, and deliverable milestones.
Comfort working with content-generation systems, data pipelines, workflow orchestration, staged processing, approval flows, or similar production systems.
Strong understanding of APIs, backend services, frontend product surfaces, data models, and system boundaries.
Disciplined git, pull request, review, testing, and deployment practices.
Ability to work independently, make sound technical decisions, and own a complete area without heavy hand-holding.
Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
A practical mindset, high ownership, and the ability to move quickly without dropping the quality bar.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation.
Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage.
Health and Wellness spending account.
Generous time off policies.
Opportunity to build AI-enabled products and workflows with real business impact.
Exposure to live-service games, content production, game operations, and internal platform development.
A high-ownership role with meaningful influence over how AI is adopted across the company.