
Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI
Hopper
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$200,000 - CA$300,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Identify and implement codebase improvements to enable AI agents to work faster and more safely.
- Collaborate with a team of senior engineers in an agile, trust-based environment with high autonomy.
- Drive decisions and build consensus asynchronously by leveraging AI to write rigorous documentation and specifications.
- Deliver fast. Learn fast. Repeat. Orchestrate AI agents to build new features end-to-end (from UX to database) with minimal supervision.
- Design scalable solutions and foundational models that allow us to efficiently launch new portals.
- Work directly with product managers (PMs) and business partners to define our roadmap; your voice and technical vision matter.
- Collaborate with a diverse team, giving and receiving the feedback necessary for your professional growth.
Requirements
- A natural propensity to dive fearlessly into an unfamiliar codebase while keeping the end goal in sight to deliver results quickly.
- Demonstrated ability to lead AI agents and automated workflows to design, implement, and maintain complex software systems with minimal human intervention.
- Expertise in designing technical guardrails and automated feedback loops that maximize AI agent productivity and reliability.
- A sharp product mindset, where your conception of quality and architecture is intrinsically rooted in the customer experience.
- Experience (or a strong willingness to learn) in developing distributed systems in Scala.
Benefits
- A well-funded startup with outsized ambitions: competitive salary and equity-related benefits (pre-IPO).
- Group insurance: Hopper covers 100% of premiums.
- Comprehensive coverage: life insurance, short- and long-term disability.
- Health Spending Account (HSA) for eligible medical and dental expenses.
- Telemedicine: unlimited access to Dialogue services for you and your dependents.
- Retirement savings: access to an RRSP plan with automatic contributions.
- Ultra-generous parental leave (well beyond industry norms!).
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
- Travel allowance in “Carrot Cash”.
- Total flexibility: on-demand access to coworking spaces via FlexDesk AND a remote work allowance.
- Entrepreneurial culture where pushing boundaries and taking risks is part of the day-to-day.
- Open communication with company leadership and senior leaders.
- Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
codebase improvementsAI agentsautomated workflowscomplex software systemstechnical guardrailsautomated feedback loopsdistributed systemsScala
Soft Skills
collaborationleadershipcommunicationfeedbackproduct mindsetautonomytrust-based environment