Posted 2 months ago
Principal SW Engineer - AI Native
@ hireVouch
Ontario
Overview
hireVouch is hiring a Principal Full Stack Engineer for a new Toronto engineering hub of a global digital commerce company, starting a small senior team. The role architects and delivers full-stack platforms, drives AI-assisted development standards, and owns production systems end to end.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and evolve scalable full-stack systems
- Lead high-impact technical initiatives to production
- Define AI-assisted development standards and workflows
- Mentor engineers on system design
- Improve reliability, performance and security at scale
Requirements summary:
- About 10+ years building production software systems
- Expert JavaScript and TypeScript proficiency
- Strong backend and cloud-native experience, AWS preferred
- Experience with data storage, caching and messaging
- Demonstrated use of AI tooling to accelerate engineering
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-15
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-31
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the often-employed aggressive methods typical of the recruitment industry, our focus is placed largely on referral-based networking. Getting it right really matters to us. Let us leverage our network of talent that has already been vouched for by leading professionals in the industry to help your business grow. Services Offered Contingency and Retained Search Here at hireVouch we focus on sourcing best-in-class candidates for rewarding positions in Canada and the US. We have extensive expertise in Contingency, Retained and Temporary placement, primarily within the IT sector. On-Site Search Assistance We have a trusted network of HR and search professionals who can provide on-site search services to help fulfill immediate needs as well as help train internal staff in finding the highest quality talent Company Marketing Strategy We know how competitive the job market can truly be and how important it is to have a strategy to attract talent. At hireVouch we have extensive expertise in helping companies better market themselves. We can provide the tools and knowledge that will assist you in making your business a highly attractive place to work. Developing a company marketing strategy is key to hiring the talent you need to grow.
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- 68,412
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 7
- Reported office locations
- 215 Spadina Avenue, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7, CA
- Other recorded names
- hireVouch
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Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2016 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 175 |
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The Opportunity: We’re partnering with a publicly listed global technology company operating at a massive international scale across digital commerce. Despite its size, the organization runs with a startup execution model - lean teams, strong ownership, and engineering-led decision making. The company is now establishing a new Toronto engineering hub, starting with a small group of highly senior engineers tasked with designing and operating modern, AI-native systems that directly power a global customer platform used across 50+ countries.
This is a founding-team opportunity - not incremental hiring. At the Principal level, this role will help define system architecture, technical standards, and engineering practices that shape the long-term foundation of the Toronto development center.
What Makes This Role Different:
This team is intentionally structured around AI-augmented software development. AI tooling is not experimental or optional - it is embedded into daily workflows to dramatically increase engineering velocity, ownership, and output quality.
You’ll work in an environment where engineers:
● Own problems end-to-end
● Lead technical direction through hands-on contribution
● Operate production systems directly
● Use AI as a true productivity multiplier
What You’ll Be Building:
You’ll architect and deliver full-stack platforms powering a globally scaled commerce ecosystem, including:
● Modern frontend applications and platform experiences
● Scalable backend services and APIs
● Cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems
● Performance, reliability, and observability platforms
● AI-enabled engineering workflows and development standards Principal Engineers are expected to drive initiatives from architecture → execution → long-term operational ownership while enabling team-wide engineering effectiveness.
Core Responsibilities:
● Architect and evolve scalable full-stack systems across frontend, backend, and cloud layers
● Lead high-impact technical initiatives from concept through production deployment
● Define and promote AI-assisted development standards and workflows
● Mentor engineers on system design, scalability, and architectural decision making
● Guide technical direction across services, applications, and platform components
● Improve system reliability, performance, and security at scale
● Partner closely with product, infrastructure, and platform leadership
● Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of complex production challenges
● Establish best practices for testing, observability, and deployment
● Continuously improve engineering productivity within a small, senior team Ideal Background:
We’re looking for senior technical leaders who combine deep hands-on engineering expertise with strong architectural ownership.
You likely bring:
● ~10+ years building production software systems
● Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale web platforms
● Expert JavaScript / TypeScript proficiency
● Strong backend experience across modern service architectures
● Deep understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and frontend architecture
● Extensive cloud-native development experience (AWS preferred)
● Experience working with data storage, caching, and messaging systems
● Track record of leading technical direction through hands-on execution
● Comfort operating in small, high-ownership engineering teams
Most importantly: Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tooling effectively to accelerate engineering velocity and improve system quality. Why Engineers Are Interested:
● Founding technical leader within a new Toronto engineering center
● High autonomy and meaningful architectural ownership
● Small, senior-only team environment
● Opportunity to shape AI-native engineering culture from day one
● Global scale technical challenges without large-company bureaucracy
● Competitive compensation and long-term growth opportunity
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