Architect AI platforms for Wagepoint’s remote-first payroll software using LLM systems, Python services, and distributed architecture expertise.

This principal engineering role sets the technical strategy for AI products serving small businesses across Canada. You will define platform boundaries, persistence standards, quality gates, and responsible AI guardrails. Your decisions guide engineering roadmaps, vendor choices, and agentic development across Wagepoint.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define AI platform boundaries alongside the existing product stack
- Evaluate vendors using quantified costs and rejected alternatives
- Publish verification notes and triggers for revisiting platform choices
- Design large-scale customer-facing systems using domain boundaries




- Shape engineering standards through RFCs, reviews, and mentorship

Requirements:

- 10+ years’ experience with progressively increasing engineering impact
- Staff-level experience designing and operating production agentic systems
- Working knowledge of DDD and Clean Architecture principles
- Fluency in orchestration, MCP, A2A, evals, and vector persistence
- Executive communication covering platform cost, risk, and optionality

Bring principal-level architecture leadership to Wagepoint’s AI platforms, distributed systems, vendor strategy, and regulated payroll setting.

📌 Principal AI Platform Architect (Canada)
🏢 Wagepoint
📍 Canada