Senior AI Full Stack Engineer

Synechron•Halifax, NS

2d•CA$110,000 - CA$120,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior AI Full Stack Engineer to join a strategic technology initiative within a 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.

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
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
Advanced Python
FastAPI
REST API development
Async programming
Microservices architecture
React (18/19)
TypeScript
TanStack Query / Router / Table
TailwindCSS
Modern frontend architecture
Hands-on experience building RAG applications
Experience integrating Large Language Models
Prompt engineering
Vector databases
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
AI application orchestration

Nice To Haves

Azure or AWS Cloud
Docker & Kubernetes
CI/CD pipelines
GitHub Actions
PostgreSQL
Snowflake or Databricks
Financial Services or Capital Markets experience

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.

Benefits

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.