Our challenge
We are seeking a Senior AI Full Stack Engineer to join a strategic technology initiative within client's Capital Markets. The successful candidate will help design and develop modern AI- powered applications by combining expertise in data engineering, backend services, frontend development, and Generative AI. The ideal candidate is passionate about building scalable data products and AI solutions while working across the full technology stack.
Additional Information*
The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other factors. In accordance with law, the base salary for this role if filled within Toronto, ON/Halifax, NS is CAD $110k – CAD $120k/year & benefits (see below).
The Role
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop modern data pipelines using Dagster and dbt.
- Build scalable backend services using Python and FastAPI.
- Develop RESTful APIs and asynchronous services for high-performance applications.
- Create responsive and intuitive web applications using React, TypeScript, TanStack, and TailwindCSS.
- Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
- Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into enterprise applications.
- Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations for AI agent workflows.
- Develop reusable data products while ensuring data quality, lineage, and governance.
- Collaborate with data engineers, AI engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders.
- Follow software engineering best practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and code reviews.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 6+ years of software development experience
- 2+ years building GenAI/LLM applications
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience working within Agile teams
- Data Engineering
- Strong experience with Dagster
- Hands-on experience with dbt
- Good understanding of Medallion Architecture
- Experience building scalable data pipelines
- Data quality and validation frameworks
- Experience developing data products
- Backend Development
- Advanced Python
- FastAPI
- REST API development
- Async programming
- Microservices architecture
- Frontend Development
- React (18/19)
- TypeScript
- TanStack Query / Router / Table
- TailwindCSS
- Modern frontend architecture
- AI / Machine Learning
- Hands-on experience building RAG applications
- Experience integrating Large Language Models
- Prompt engineering
- Vector databases
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- AI application orchestration
- Preferred skills:
- Azure or AWS Cloud
- Docker & Kubernetes
- CI/CD pipelines
- GitHub Actions
- PostgreSQL
- Snowflake or Databricks
- Financial Services or Capital Markets experience
We offer:
- A multinational organization with 60 offices in 20 countries and the possibility to work abroad.
- 15 days (3 weeks) of paid annual leave plus an additional 10 days of personal leave (floating days and sick days).
- A comprehensive insurance plan including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-term disability.
- Flexible hybrid policy.
- RRSP with employer’s contribution up to 4%.
- A higher education certification policy.
- On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.
- Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.
- Cutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms.
- A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture.
