Software Engineer/ Backend Developer

Toronto, ON | Full-Time | 1–5 Years Experience

We’re partnering with a fast-growing private investment firm in Toronto to hire a Software Engineer/ Backend Developer for its Technology & Data team.

This is a hands-on backend-focused engineering role working directly with investment and operating teams to build technology used across the business. The work spans AI-native applications, financial data, APIs, microservices, portfolio analytics and data pipelines .

You’ll take problems from idea through production, with significant ownership and exposure to both the technology and the business.

What You’ll Do

- Build backend applications and services primarily in Python
- Design and develop APIs, microservices and data pipelines
- Build AI-enabled applications using financial data and documents
- Develop tools that support portfolio analysis and investment decision-making
- Integrate data across internal and external systems
- Work directly with business stakeholders to understand problems and design solutions
- Own projects from concept through production
- Contribute across the stack when needed

Ideal candidates will have:




- Solid ownership and a demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment
- Strong Python development experience
- Experience building backend services, APIs and microservices
- Experience shipping and supporting production software
- Strong software engineering fundamentals across design, testing, debugging and maintainability
- Previous experience at a strong, reputable technology company is highly valued
- Strong academic training; a top Canadian university background is preferred
- Ability to work independently through ambiguous problems
- Solid communication and collaboration skills

Strong Assets
- Full-stack experience with technologies such as React, JavaScript or TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with AI development tools
- Experience building with LLMs, AI agents, retrieval systems or AI workflows
- FastAPI, Flask, Django or Next.js
- Cloud, data engineering or production infrastructure experience
- Interest in financial markets, investing or other data-intensive industries

The priority is a smart, high-ownership engineer who can build dependable backend software, move quickly and wants significant responsibility early in their career.

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