Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform (US - Remote or Calgary)

Job summary

Do you want to empower organizations to build smarter compensation strategies while ensuring fair pay for all employees? Syn*** is the leading pay governance and compensation intelligence platform. We help organizations make better pay decisions at every stage of the compensation lifecycle, from leveling and offers to promotions and merit.

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Qualifications

• The platform is young (v1 shipped this quarter), moving fast, and designed around a clear operating model: product teams contribute domain content through APIs, evals, and knowledge — the platform owns the experience.
• for Syndi.
• WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
• 5+ years building production backend systems; deep comfort with Python, relational stores, and cloud infra (we're on GCP/Kubernetes).
• You've built LLM-powered systems in production — an agent loop, tool-calling integration, RAG, or eval infrastructure — and have opinions from the scar tissue.
• You design for operability: legal compliance, tracing, evals, and kill switches are part of the feature, not afterthoughts.
• You can own a technical domain with light supervision: propose direction in writing with clear API specs, take review, ship, and carry the pager for what you shipped.
• Strong written communication — our operating model runs on design docs and PR review across team boundaries.
• Nice to have: experience being the platform side of a platform/product relationship; SSE/streaming systems; compliance-adjacent engineering (data minimization, auditability); prior Staff scope.
• WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT HERE:
• Competitive Compensation.
• For this role our salary is targeted at $205-225k USD or $180-200k CAD per year.

Responsibilities

• This is a high-autonomy role on a small team (3–4 engineers): you'll design, ship, and operate systems end-to-end, and you'll work directly with product-team owners through the platform's contribution seams.
• WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON
• Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for our Senior Software Engineer (AI Platform) position.

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