Data Engineer

Pipeline Orchestration: Lead the development of highly performant, reliable, and maintainable pipelines using Airflow and BigQuery, from architecture and design through testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance. You'll make design decisions independently and own the systems you build.

Data Modeling & Dashboards: Partner with data analysts and stakeholders to define requirements and design scalable data models and applications. You'll own data products end to end, from the pipelines and models through the backend APIs to the customer-facing dashboards and apps built on them.

AI & Agentic Workflows: Design and operate pipelines that use LLMs and agents to turn raw documents into structured, useful data. This includes prompt and context design, tool and function calling, embeddings and retrieval, structured outputs, and production concerns like retries, idempotency, cost, and latency. You'll also own evaluation datasets, LLM-as-judge and rule-based QA checks, and benchmarks that turn results into clear decisions about models, prompts, and architecture.

Continuous Improvement: Drive the ongoing improvement of our data infrastructure and processes, including evaluating and introducing new technologies and best practices. We're an AI-first team that uses coding agents like Claude Code daily for development, debugging, review, and documentation, and we're looking for someone who can help shape how we push that further.

Other duties as assigned

Make real-world impact: Influence positive change across one of the biggest societal challenges of our generation: building and maintaining sustainable public infrastructure.

Sell a genuinely differentiated platform: You’ll represent a disruptive, data-driven solution with a compelling value proposition in a market that is eager to engage.

Operate at the intersection of infrastructure, scale-up, and data science: We live where infrastructure meets AI and advanced data. There is no other team like ours in Toronto.

Move fast, learn faster: There’s no corporate bureaucracy here. You’ll accomplish more in a few months than you would in years at a large, entrenched technology company.

Be empowered by data and AI: We believe Data and AI will play an outsized role in the future of sales and decision-making. Every CityZen has access to generative AI tools and our full data universe to enhance productivity and encourage experimentation.

Grow with intention: We invest deeply in our people through in-role coaching, skill-based development, and clear internal promotion pathways.

Win as a team: We work hard, we support one another, and we celebrate progress along the way. We’re serious about solving infrastructure and just as serious about enjoying the journey together.

Citylitics is an equal opportunity employer. We are passionate about providing a safe workplace where everyone is accepted and has the opportunity to grow with us. We are committed to making diversity and inclusivity part of our culture!