Senior Software Engineer

Boosted.ai is a fintech company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in New York City and Nashville. We provide finance-specific AI tools that automate custom research workflows, analyzing data continuously from millions of sources, all tailored to the needs of our investment management clients. We are a well funded, post Series-B company - our lead investors are innovators and disruptors in financial and technology markets, including Spark Capital (Twitter, Slack, Affirm), Ten Coves Capital (Plaid, Sentieo, TouchBistro), Portage Ventures (Wealthsimple, Borrowell, Nesto), and RBC (Royal Bank of Canada).

Position Description

Boosted.ai is seeking a highly motivated and results-driven Senior Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in designing and building advanced software solutions that empower organizations. Working closely with senior members of Boosted.ai’s engineering and management teams, the ideal candidate will excel at developing scalable, high-performance systems to support our cutting-edge analytics platform.

As part of a dynamic and collaborative engineering team, this role requires someone excited by tackling complex challenges, strategizing innovative approaches, and delivering robust, impactful solutions. You will thrive in a fast-paced environment, owning projects from ideation to implementation, writing clean and maintainable code, and contributing to our ambitious growth goals.

The ideal candidate is a results-oriented engineer with a strong technical foundation, outstanding problem-solving skills, and a history of delivering high-quality software. You will be responsible for leading key initiatives, mentoring junior developers, and collaborating cross-functionally to scale our platform and deliver value to clients.

If you are a highly motivated, entrepreneurial self-starter with a natural curiosity and a passion for technology – we’d love to chat!

Key Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle, including designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data scientists, and other engineers, to develop scalable and high-performance systems.
• Partner with clients and internal stakeholders to understand their needs and design solutions that optimize workflows and address complex technical challenges.
• Work with large datasets, ensuring efficient processing, manipulation, and analysis.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, proposing and implementing innovative solutions to technical problems.
• Mentor and guide junior team members to promote growth and knowledge sharing within the engineering team.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to improve system performance and scalability.
• Maintain a strong focus on writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to best practices and coding standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of professional programming experience, with a strong focus on Python.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and their applications.
• Experience building and optimizing distributed, scalable systems and high-performance applications.
• Proficiency in working with large-scale datasets and implementing solutions for efficient data processing.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to make quick, thoughtful decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to collaborate effectively in a team-oriented environment.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern development tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Experience with machine learning, data analytics, or financial services is a bonus

We know that innovation thrives on product teams where diverse points of view come together to solve hard problems in ways that are just now possible. As such, we explicitly seek people that bring diverse life experiences, diverse educational backgrounds, diverse cultures, and diverse work experiences. Please be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique and valuable to our product teams.