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About the Role
Genius AI is building 0-to-1 AI products expected to be a massive revenue driver. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will be the technical anchor for high-innovation teams, setting architectural direction, validating options through proof-of-concepts, and turning ambitious initiatives into clear, buildable roadmaps. This is an IC role with leadership weight, focusing on architecture, planning, and technical direction, with hands-on building. You will be a force multiplier, unblocking engineers, making technical calls, and setting a new standard for backend engineering at Genius AI.
Responsibilities
- Architect and own the technical direction of AI-powered products and 0-to-1 builds, weighing long-term trade-offs and maintaining a backlog of forward-looking work.
- Integrate AI models and LLMs into customer-facing products as production systems with real reliability and performance requirements.
- Shape how Genius AI builds with AI, defining architectural decisions that will impact product possibilities for years.
- Write high-quality code and rapidly ship proof-of-concepts to validate architectural options and tackle technical challenges.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to translate ambiguous business goals into well-architected initiatives.
- Proactively identify and resolve systemic technical debt, unblock engineers, raise the quality bar, and enhance team effectiveness.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
- Track record of owning system design and architectural choices for high-scale or high-growth products.
- Experience building with AI as a structural part of your work, including integrating LLMs into production systems.
- Experience using AI tooling to accelerate development workflows.
- Comfortable making architectural calls with incomplete information and iterating rapidly in production.
- Comfortable treating ambiguity as a feature of early-stage work.
- Deep Kotlin expertise with strong intuitions about backend architecture, service design, and performance at scale.
- Solid command of modern cloud infrastructure: AWS and Kubernetes.
- Ability to navigate cloud infrastructure confidently without being a pure infra specialist.
- Natural collaborator who can align teams around a shared technical vision and keep execution moving.
- Exceptional communicator who can make complex architectural trade-offs legible to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Skills
- Backend Engineering
- AI Integration
- LLM Integration
- System Design
- Architecture
- Kotlin
- TypeScript
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Collaboration
- Communication
Location
- Remote (Greater Toronto Area)
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff
- 7+ years
Benefits
- Competitive health & dental insurance options
- Flexible PTO
- Annual stipend for professional development and continued learning
- $5,000 bonus for high performers at 5 years
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot
- Local events for distributed team
About the Company
- Genius AI is building technology to help local businesses run themselves.
- Genius AI products handle administrative work, allowing practitioners to focus on their core services.
- Products include GlossGenius and Reception, managing tasks like booking, marketing, client management, finances, and staff/inventory management.
- Genius AI technology has saved businesses 106M in admin hours, earned them $2.0B in additional revenue, and facilitated over 624M client touch points.
Equal Opportunity
- Genius AI celebrates differences and is committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered.
- Genius AI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.