Posted 2 months ago
Senior Software Engineer
@ Forum Ventures
Ontario
Overview
Forum Ventures is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for askpolly, an AI platform that turns social media conversation into statistical insight. The role owns backend architecture for agentic workflows and data-intensive services, with some full-stack work. It is full-time, hybrid with 4 days per week in office in Ottawa, ON, and requires 5 to 8 years of professional experience.
Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain scalable backend services and APIs
- Build agentic workflows and LLM pipelines
- Process large streams of organic social data
- Improve reliability, performance and observability
- Contribute full-stack when needed
Requirements summary:
- 5 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong backend experience in Python, Ruby, Go or Java
- Experience with Airflow, Astro or LangChain pipelines
- Understanding of distributed systems and message queues
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · ashby
- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-28
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science |
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Forum Ventures
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Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B tech startups. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto, we’re on a mission to make the startup journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders. To date, we have made 500+ pre-seed and seed investments globally. Those founders have gone on to raise $1B+ in follow-on funding from funds like Kleiner Perkins, Andreesen Horowitz, General Catalyst, NEA, Emergence Capital, Menlo Ventures, Craft Ventures, Founders Fund and more. To learn more visit Forumvc.com. Looking for more founder-focused advice? Subscribe to The Midnight Text -- a bi-weekly newsletter that provides honest answers to the unspoken questions that keep founders awake at (mid)night. https://midnighttext.substack.com/
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- 43 W 23rd St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10010, US
- 169 Gore Vale Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6J 2R5, CA
- 149 Natoma Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, US
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- Forum Ventures
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- SaaS
- Enterprise Software
- Incubator
- Accelerator
- Startups
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- healthtech
- FoW
- and Vertical AI
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- Reported total investment
- 84,430,000
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Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B tech startups. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto, we’re on a mission to make the startup journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders. To date, we have made 500+ pre-seed and seed investments globally. Those founders have gone on to raise $1B+ in follow-on funding from…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2014 |
| Specialties | SaaSEnterprise SoftwareIncubatorAcceleratorStartupsb2bfintechhealthtechFoWand Vertical AI |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 19 |
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Company Description
askpolly transforms large-scale human conversation into actionable insights. By leveraging AI and patented statistical models to analyze organic social media data, askpolly provides near-instant, statistically valid insight into market reactions, election outcomes, and messaging strategy. We are moving beyond traditional polling to give teams an agentic interface that delivers actionable results in under two minutes - empowering data-driven decision-making at the speed of conversation.
Role Description
Weʼre looking for a Senior Software Engineer with 5 - 8 years of professional experience to help design, build, and scale the production systems behind askpollyʼs AI-powered insights platform. This is a full-time role based in Ottawa, ON, operating on a hybrid schedule (4 days per week in-office).
In this role, youʼll own core backend architecture while contributing full-stack when needed, collaborating closely with product and data science teammates. You will take ownership of complex features from problem definition through production delivery. You should thrive in an early-stage environment where requirements can be ambiguous, trade-offs matter, and shipping reliable, data-intensive software quickly is paramount.
What youʼll do
Architect & Build: Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, robust APIs, and agentic workflows.
Full-Stack Collaboration: Build and improve product experiences using modern web technologies, bridging complex backend data with intuitive interfaces.
AI & Data Scale: Work directly with LLM pipelines, agent orchestration, and statistical systems to process massive streams of organic data.
Drive Standards: Improve system reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability across our cloud infrastructure.
Collaborate & Lead: Work cross-functionally to clarify product requirements, evaluate technical trade-offs, and make pragmatic architecture decisions.
Leverage Modern Workflows: Thoughtfully utilize AI tools to accelerate development velocity, elevate code quality, and optimize internal loops.
Qualifications
Experience: 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade software.
Core Stack: Strong backend development experience with languages such as Python, Ruby GO, Java or similar.
Workflow Orchestration: Experience building, scheduling, and monitoring pipelines using Astro / Apache Airflow, Langchain etc.
Distributed Systems: Practical understanding of distributed systems architecture, microservices, and message queues/event streaming (e.g., Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, or Kafka).
System Design: Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, software architecture, performance optimization, and scalable data-intensive systems.
Nice to have:
Education: Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent deep practical experience.
Frontend Familiarity: Experience with React and TypeScript is highly valued.
Data & Databases: Hands-on experience working with document databases (e.g., MongoDB) and handling analytical data formats like Parquet.
Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with deploying and monitoring applications in cloud environments (Azure preferred)
Ideal Candidate
Comfort with ambiguity: You can take a vague “this workflow is painful” and turn it into a concrete diagnosis, a clear path forward, and working software.
Strong ownership: You proactively identify what needs doing, drive solutions forward, and close loops without waiting for every detail to be defined.
Bias for shipping: You make pragmatic decisions, balance quality with speed, and know when to iterate.
Strategic mindset: You understand the “why” behind your work and can explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Deep curiosity: You read the docs, ask good questions, and learn new domains because you want to understand how things work—not just what you need to ship.
AI-first mindset: You actively use AI tools to improve your development workflow and are excited to keep experimenting with new ways to build software.
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