Lead Backend Developer - Agentic AI (Python)

Royal Bank of Canada • 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.

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

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees