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Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!
We’re forming a new squad at Lightspeed called the Agent OC Squad, focused on building AI-powered tools and capabilities. This includes working with LLMs, agent frameworks, and other emerging AI technologies to create internal tools, extend our product suite with new AI features, and help other teams adopt AI effectively.
You’ll join a highly collaborative and innovative team of backend engineers, product managers, and designers. Your role will focus on Python backend development, building scalable APIs and systems that integrate with AI-powered services. You’ll also have the opportunity to explore and apply modern AI techniques on the job.
This is a hands-on engineering role. Prior experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, or AI APIs is a plus, but not required.
What you’ll be responsible for
1. Building and maintaining backend services and APIs in Python
2. Designing and implementing AI-powered tools and product features
3. Collaborating with other teams to help them integrate LLMs and AI patterns
4. Exploring and applying LLM capabilities such as summarization, classification, RAG, and prompt pipelines
5. Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested backend code
6. Ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability of the systems you build
7. Staying up to date with developments in the AI space and sharing insights with your team
Who you are
You’re excited about building practical, AI-enabled systems that make work easier and products better. You enjoy solving hard problems with clean code and clear thinking. You’re curious about AI and open to learning new frameworks, tools, and techniques.
You bring deep backend experience, work well in teams, and care about building things that are actually useful.
Requirements
8. At least 5 years of experience in backend development
9. Strong production experience with Python and frameworks like FastAPI or Flask
10. Solid understanding of REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and system architecture
11. Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes
12. Strong communication and collaboration skills
13. Comfortable writing well-structured, maintainable code
14. Interest in AI technologies and willingness to grow in this space
What will increase your chances
15. Experience with another backend language (e.g. Java, Go)
16. Exposure to LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Claude), prompt engineering, or agent frameworks
17. Knowledge of vector search, semantic retrieval, or document indexing
18. Experience building internal tools or customer-facing AI features
19. Familiarity with observability tools and performance monitoring
20. Understanding of security, access controls, and API standards
What’s in it for you
21. Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture with the option of working remotely or from one of our beautiful offices
22. Genuine career growth opportunities within a company that's continuously expanding
23. Make a meaningful impact by helping teams and customers work more effectively with AI
24. Be part of a team large enough for growth yet agile enough for real impact
25. Work on high-traffic products with a global user base
26. Opportunity to work alongside other highly skilled engineers, learn and expand your skill set, forge wonderful relationships and make your mark within the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed culture, a true Canadian tech success story
… and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy and healthy:
27. Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners).
28. Flexible working policy.
29. Mental health online platform and counseling & coaching services.
30. Health and wellness benefits.
31. LinkedIn Learning license (learning is always ongoing).
32. Volunteer day to be able to give back to society!