Intermediate Software Engineer, Backend

About Us

Ada is an AI customer experience platform that harnesses the world's most powerful large language models to make customer service extraordinary for everyone. We’re driven to set the new standard for customer service at scale, enabling Enterprise companies to deliver experiences that are instant, proactive, personalized, and effortless. 

Our team is pushing the frontier of AI Agent development, measurement, and management to power quality service experiences that respect everyone’s most valuable asset, time. Giving both customers, and customer service professionals, more quality time back for life’s big & small moments.

Since 2016, Ada is a proudly Canadian company that has powered over 4 billion interactions—automating up to 83% of all customer inquiries—for leading brands like Square, YETI, Canva, and Monday.com saving millions of hours of human effort for people all over the world. 

Backed with over $250M in funding from tier-1 investors including Accel, Bessemer, FirstMark, Spark, and Version One Ventures, Ada is a pioneer in applied AI customer service. 

At Ada, we see growth as a reflection of each individual owner’s personal growth. That’s why our values are rooted in driving progress and continuous improvement. If you’re ambitious and eager to grow, Ada could be the place for you.

Learn more at www.ada.cx.

Our Role

As an Intermediate Software Engineer on our team, you will work with internal and external stakeholders, product managers, and designers to execute Ada’s roadmap and iteratively deliver the messaging platform that will drive more volume to our AI-driven CX platform.

About You

• 2+ years of experience as a Backend Developer
• Proficient with backend technologies (Python and Node.js, Javascript is an asset)
• Understanding of databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch and in-memory stores such as Redis
• Experience with 3rd party LLMs, such as GPT, Azure, Anthropic ect.
• Experience deploying code and strong developer operations
• Commitment to personal growth and continued learning
• Drive and willingness to make the people around you better
• Self-starter, problem solver and strong communicator
• Experience working with public APIs to build reliable third-party integrations

Outcomes

• Execute on our ambitious product roadmap
• Provide your perspective and ideas to help level up our current development practices
• Review the team’s code, provide insightful feedback, foster collaborative community and teach everyone something new
• Ensure that the team is providing the best AI Agent platform experience to our internal developers and external partners
• Participate in an on-call rotation for the services the team owns, triaging and addressing production issues

Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous stock option plan
• Unlimited vacation
• Wellness account
• Extended health coverage
• Dental/optical/travel insurance
• Life insurance
• Employee and family assistance plan

Perks

• Flexible work schedule
• Remote-first, In-person friendly work environment with WFH budget
• Paid parental leave for Canadian residents
• Development opportunities

The expected salary range for this position is $102,000 to $131,000 CAD. Actual pay will be determined based on several factors such as past experience and qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

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