Job Description
Insight Global is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join one of our large retail clients in Canada.

This team is building an internal agentic engineering platform designed to improve how software moves through the development lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation, testing, review and verification.

This role sits at the intersection of AI engineering, platform engineering and developer productivity.

The ideal candidate is a strong software/platform engineer who has hands-on experience building AI agents and taking them into production.

Responsibilities
Build and productionize AI agents and agentic workflows
Identify opportunities to simplify and automate engineering processes using agentic solutions
Build integrations utilizing MCP, tool calling and agent orchestration
Develop evals and guardrails to measure agent performance and ensure reliable outputs
Address production considerations including latency, reliability and scalability
Build and improve internal developer tooling and platform capabilities
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automation and templates
Build solutions that improve engineering productivity across the SDLC
Work independently to solve ambiguous technical problems and determine the best tools and technologies for each solution
Skills and Requirements
Must-Haves
Senior-level software engineering experience
Hands-on experience building AI agents from the ground up and deploying them into production
Experience with MCP, evals, guardrails and agentic workflows
Strong platform or systems engineering background




Experience building and productionizing scalable systems
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation and developer tooling
Strong programming skills in Python and/or Java
Strong understanding of the end-to-end SDLC
Experience building solutions at scale
Self-motivated problem solver with a strong product mindset
Ability to identify inefficiencies within development processes and build solutions that simplify them
Nice to Have
Experience building internal developer platforms
Context engineering experience
Knowledge graphs or code intelligence experience
Cloud infrastructure and infrastructure automation experience
Experience with agentic development tools such as Cursor or Claude Code
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day.

We are an equal employment chance/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters.

Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].

📌 AI Platform Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Insight Global
📍 Toronto