Lead Backend Developer - Agentic AI (Python)

RBC•Toronto, ON

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Leads the technical design, development, and implementation of complex, multi platform application software solutions, applying advanced expertise and knowledge to deliver innovative and strategic business outcomes. Leads software development projects of significant complexity, applying advanced expertise and knowledge to deliver impactful results. Designs, develops, and oversees the implementation of advanced technical solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and adherence to best practices, while managing the end to end technical delivery of projects. Build Gen AI system frameworks, Prompt Engineering, including designing and refining prompts to optimize LLM outputs, implementing Gen AI systems into production. Provides expert technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring the successful execution of complex assignments and projects. Collaborates with business stakeholders and product owners to translate strategic objectives into actionable technical solutions, leveraging advanced knowledge to address unique and high impact challenges. Responsible for working closely with AI data scientists to support data ingestion and feature engineering, establishing industry best practices, maintaining and managing technical documentations. Executes on software development tasks or projects, requiring advanced problem solving, decision making and strategic thinking with some ambiguity. Drives decisions on complex issues to develop clear, actionable recommendations for management, ensuring alignment on processes, tools and services with impact across other areas. Leverages advanced and creative skills to resolve complex software development related problems, fostering cross functional collaboration to identify and implement innovative solutions. Leads and facilitates cross functional collaboration efforts, fostering strong internal relationships across the organization and external partnerships to achieve impactful business outcomes.

Requirements

7+ years of backend development experience in Python
Hands-on experience or strong understanding of Agentic AI concepts, LLM integrations
Understanding of RAG architectures
Understanding of prompt engineering and Gen-AI
Development tools(GitHub Copilot, Windsurf)
Advanced knowledge of REST APIs and Microservices
Experience with Cloud platforms and technologies (OpenShift, Kubernetes, S3 Object Storage)

Nice To Haves

Experience with LangChain and LangGraph
Experience with Vector Databases
Experience with observability tools for AI systems
Strategic thinker with excellent interpersonal skills to work across functions and businesses

Responsibilities

Designs, develops, and oversees the implementation of advanced technical solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and adherence to best practices, while managing the end to end technical delivery of projects.
Build Gen AI system frameworks, Prompt Engineering, including designing and refining prompts to optimize LLM outputs, implementing Gen AI systems into production.
Provides expert technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring the successful execution of complex assignments and projects.
Collaborates with business stakeholders and product owners to translate strategic objectives into actionable technical solutions, leveraging advanced knowledge to address unique and high impact challenges.
Responsible for working closely with AI data scientists to support data ingestion and feature engineering, establishing industry best practices, maintaining and managing technical documentations.
Executes on software development tasks or projects, requiring advanced problem solving, decision making and strategic thinking with some ambiguity.
Drives decisions on complex issues to develop clear, actionable recommendations for management, ensuring alignment on processes, tools and services with impact across other areas.
Leverages advanced and creative skills to resolve complex software development related problems, fostering cross functional collaboration to identify and implement innovative solutions.
Leads and facilitates cross functional collaboration efforts, fostering strong internal relationships across the organization and external partnerships to achieve impactful business outcomes.

Benefits

bonuses
flexible benefits
competitive compensation
commissions
stock where applicable
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
A world-class training program in financial services
Opportunities to do challenging work