Lead Software Engineer – AI, Data Visualization & Platform

About Astucemedia

Role Overview

Technical Leadership

• Mentor developers and drive practical adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
• Establish AI usage guidelines while maintaining code quality, testing, security, and code review standards.
• Collaborate on architecture, system design, technical direction, product ideas, feasibility, and delivery risks.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and prototype approaches that can improve products or engineering.

Hands-on Engineering

• Write and maintain production-quality full-stack code for critical system components.
• Evolve the Angular and C#/.NET Core platform and contribute to scalable architectures, APIs, distributed systems, data flows, and integrations.
• Introduce cloud-native applications, containerization, event-driven systems, and modern deployment practices.
• Develop AI-powered production features involving LLMs, agents, RAG, embeddings, intelligent search, and workflow orchestration.
• Build interactive, advanced, and real-time data visualization experiences for complex datasets.
• Optimize real-time data systems, integrations, performance, reliability, and deployment processes.

Essential Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in a senior technical role such as Lead, Staff, Principal, Technical Lead, or equivalent.
• Strong hands-on software development and system design experience.
• Experience designing scalable applications, APIs, distributed systems, or complex data flows.
• Professional experience with C#/.NET and Angular/TypeScript or closely related technologies.
• Experience with cloud-based, distributed, or real-time applications.
• Practical experience applying AI or Generative AI to software development, engineering workflows, or products.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and hands-on execution skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI-assisted coding, software modernization, or developer enablement.
• Experience with LLM applications, agents, tool calling, RAG, embeddings, vector search, or workflow orchestration.
• Experience with production AI reliability, latency, cost, security, privacy, observability, or evaluation.
• Experience with advanced data visualization, geospatial visualization, mapping, dashboards, or data-intensive applications.
• Experience with Kafka, WebSockets, messaging, event-driven architectures, SQL, NoSQL, Docker, Git, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, GCP, Python, or FastAPI.
• Experience in live broadcast, media, financial, sports, or other high-stakes data environments.
• French language skills.

Workplace and Travel

• The role is hybrid and based in Astucemedia’s Montreal Old Port office.
• Occasional onsite deployments and international travel may be required.

Benefits

• Benefits include comprehensive group insurance, medical and dental coverage, telemedicine support, RRSP matching, a wellness allowance, and team activities.