Job Overview
Location
Toronto
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Backend Engineer
Date Posted
January 16, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Own the architecture and reliability of FutureFit AI’s most mission-critical integration: a bidirectional sync that keeps our AI-powered career guidance platform in lock-step with government workforce systems. You will design and ship fault-tolerant services that reconcile thousands of records per hour, surface discrepancies before they become support tickets, and scale to new jurisdictions without re-engineering.
- • Eliminate manual, repetitive work that slows our customer-success and support teams. You will build Lambda-driven automation that retries failed API calls, auto-heals bad data, and generates human-readable diagnostics—turning multi-hour investigations into one-click resolutions.
- • Establish the gold standard for integration observability. From CloudWatch custom metrics to distributed tracing with EventBridge and SQS, you will create dashboards and alerts that give engineers and non-technical staff the same real-time visibility into sync health.
- • Architect reusable patterns for future integrations. The async workflows, idempotency guards, and validation pipelines you craft for the flagship sync will become the template for onboarding Fortune-500 employers and additional government agencies in 2024 and beyond.
- • Collaborate cross-functionally with customer success, policy, and external partners. You will translate regulatory requirements into technical specs, negotiate API changes with legacy-system vendors, and present impact reports that prove our platform is moving the needle on economic mobility.
- • Mentor and level-up the broader engineering team. Through design reviews, brown-bag sessions, and pair programming, you will spread best practices in serverless patterns, defensive coding, and operational excellence.
- • Drive a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement. Whether it’s introducing chaos testing for our sync pipelines or A/B testing new retry strategies, you will champion initiatives that keep our platform resilient as usage 10×.
- • Contribute to product strategy. Your on-the-ground insights from integration logs and partner feedback will shape roadmap decisions—helping us decide which new data sources, AI models, or compliance features to prioritize next.
🎯 Requirements
- • 5–8 years of backend or platform engineering, with demonstrable success building and maintaining complex third-party integrations at scale
- • Expert-level TypeScript/Node.js and production-grade AWS (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB or MongoDB)
- • Proven ability to design idempotent, eventually consistent, event-driven workflows with robust error handling and observability
- • Experience wrangling government or legacy enterprise APIs where documentation is sparse and SLAs are strict
- • Comfortable in SQL and NoSQL datastores; able to write performant queries for both operational and analytical workloads
🏖️ Benefits
- • Base salary of CAD $130k–$170k plus unlimited PTO and flexible, trust-based schedules
- • Comprehensive health coverage and annual technology & career-development stipends
- • Work directly with the founding team in a high-growth, mission-driven environment that is transforming workforce development
- • Remote-first across Canada, with optional Toronto office days and quarterly travel to collaborate in person
Skills & Technologies
About FutureFit AI Inc.
FutureFit AI Inc. develops advanced AI-powered workforce technology designed to bridge the gap between talent, training, and employment. Their comprehensive platform, including the Pathways Platform and Career Copilot, serves governments, workforce development organizations, economic development agencies, and enterprises by providing intelligent solutions for career navigation, labor exchange, upskilling, and reskilling. By connecting job seekers to personalized career paths and employers to skilled talent, FutureFit AI supports adaptive and scalable workforce ecosystems, including virtual career centers. The company leverages powerful labor market data, compiling insights from 350 million talent profiles and 50 million job postings to deliver data-driven solutions that support over 100,000 users.
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