Posted 2 months ago
Backend Engineer
@ Cambio AI Inc.
Ontario
Overview
Cambio AI Inc. is hiring a Backend Engineer to build and maintain Django backend services for its real estate decarbonization platform. The work covers launching customer-facing features, performance optimization, and reducing technical debt. The role is full-time and in person in Kitchener-Waterloo, New York, or San Francisco.
Responsibilities:
- Build Django backend services for customer-facing features
- Improve performance through optimizations
- Reduce technical debt
- Support and collaborate with teammates
Requirements summary:
- Experience in Python web development
- Solid computer science and algorithm fundamentals
- Exceptional research and debugging skills
- Understanding of technical trade-offs and YAGNI
- Django and Ninja experience is a bonus
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · ashby
- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-02
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
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Job details
| Department | Software development |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: minimal |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Flexible hours, Stock or equity, Wellness, Free or discounted meals |
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Cambio AI Inc.
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Outbound voice agents for the financial services industry - Drive revenue and engagement with automated and compliant AI
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AviaryAI is the industry's first outbound AI service team for banks, credit unions, and insurance companies. In a landscape where only 18% of financial service providers make proactive outbound calls and rely heavily on emails, AviaryAI offers a groundbreaking solution. Powered by a private LLM, our suite of products helps institutions leverage Generative AI while adhering to stringent regulatory and compliance standards.
- LinkedIn followers
- 2,056
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 14
- Reported office locations
- 515 N State St, Chicago, Illinois 60654, US
- Business categories
- Generative AI
- FinTech
- Financial Services
- Other recorded names
- Cambio AI Inc.
- AviaryAI
- Specialties
- banking
- technology
- loans
- credit
- generative ai
- ai
- ai voice interaction
- credit unions
- insurance
- fintech
- and customer experience
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 3,500,000
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AviaryAI is the industry's first outbound AI service team for banks, credit unions, and insurance companies. In a landscape where only 18% of financial service providers make proactive outbound calls and rely heavily on emails, AviaryAI offers a groundbreaking solution. Powered by a private LLM, our suite of products helps institutions leverage Generative AI while adhering to stringent regulatory and compliance…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Specialties | bankingtechnologyloanscreditgenerative aiaiai voice interactioncredit unionsinsurancefintech |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 4 |
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Cambio is a software platform for real estate decarbonization. We help commercial real estate owners bring their portfolios to net-zero with an AI-driven sustainability, asset, and investment management platform. We're backed by Y Combinator, Google, and Stanford — and we're the fastest-growing startup in our category.
The role
We're looking for a Backend Engineer to build, help teammates do their best work, and have fun doing it.
What you'll be doing
Launch customer-facing features by building Django backend services
Improve the customer experience through performance optimizations
Improve the eng team's quality of life by committing to tech debt reduction
Support and collaborate with your teammates
Who you are
An A-player: low ego, curious, and serious about your craft
You are outcome driven
Work isn't in opposition to life for you - it's part of your life because you genuinely enjoy it
You ship through obstacles — roadblocks are part of the problem to solve
You move with urgency and close the week with visible impact
You're relentlessly curious and treat truth-seeking as a discipline
You believe iteration speed is quality - the way to build great things is to build fast and learn faster
You show up for your teammates, in person. You unblock before being asked and never let someone stay stuck
You own your work end-to-end - proactive about visibility, proud of your progress, and you over-communicate until everyone is fully aligned
What you bring
Independent problem simplification skills
Experienced in Python web development (Django & Ninja is a bonus)
Solid grasp of computer science and algorithm fundamentals
Exceptional research & debugging skills
Understanding of technical trade-offs and the YAGNI principle
Our tech stack
Infra: AWS, Kubernetes, Redis, PostgreSQL, SQS, CDK, GitHub, Retool
Backend: Django REST/Ninja, Celery
Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
LLM: AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Claude
Logistics
Work authorization: authorized to work in the US or Canada, and able to travel to both
This is an in-person role based in Kitchener-Waterloo, New York, or San Francisco
What we offer
Competitive compensation and startup equity
Flexible time off
$1,200 annual learning budget
Catered lunch
Best workstation in a beautiful office in Uptown Waterloo
Office gym
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