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Software Engineer (Full Stack) - 6 Month Contract

Citylitics
Toronto, CAN
Contract
Mid · 3+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 1 months ago
DjangoDjango REST FrameworkPythonReactReact QueryTypeScript

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What Will You Accomplish?

Design

Write design documents and run technical demos to align stakeholders before building

Sequence product behaviors into backend/frontend implementation with accurate complexity estimates

Design and ship self-contained custom solutions to customers

Data Native

Investigate and validate datasets with SQL and metrics to ground design decisions

Modernization

Own modernization efforts — migrate legacy code into modern patterns

Upgrade core frameworks, retire end-of-life dependencies, and decompose oversized modules

Reduce tech debt incrementally alongside ongoing product work — safe, incremental refactors over big-bang rewrites

Requirements

  • 3–5 years building and maintaining production web applications, with genuine depth in one of the following and working competence in the other:
  • Backend: Django / Django REST Framework, Python
  • Frontend: React (incl. React Query), TypeScript
  • Fluent with AI-assisted development workflows (AI coding agents) as a core part of how you ship
  • Speaks the language of data — reaches for queries, metrics, and models to frame problems and validate results
  • Communicates thinking and direction through technical writing and design — design docs, diagrams, and clear reasoning that bring stakeholders of different technical background along
  • Experience building and deploying on a cloud stack (GCP preferred) — e.g. serverless services (Cloud Run/Functions), service-to-service auth, and cloud deploy pipelines
  • Working understanding of access management — RBAC, SSO, MFA/2FA, IAM, and tier-based gating
  • Comfortable modernizing a live codebase within an existing code-review and agile process
  • Organized and process-oriented, with a strong grasp of the SDLC
  • CI/CD, API telemetry/monitoring, and database design/denormalization

What Gives You an Edge

Leads by example:

Technical demonstrations leading to new technology adoption within your team's existing stack

Led or key involvement in the design of a project/system that shipped

Prior major framework version upgrades or large-module decomposition on a live production codebase

Experience building AI/LLM product features

Infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration — Terraform (IaC), Kubernetes/Helm

Benefits

  • This is a rare opportunity to influence positive change within one of the biggest societal challenges of our generation: sustainable public infrastructure
  • You get to support a disruptive solution with a compelling value proposition into an industry that is eager to hear from you and in a market with no direct competition.
  • We live at the cross section of infrastructure, scaleup and data science/AI. There is no other team like us in Toronto.
  • There is no corporate bureaucracy here. You will accomplish more here in a few months than what you would in a few years at a large, entrenched technology company.
  • We believe that Data and AI will play an outsized role in our future, so we equip every team member with access to Generative AI tools and our full Data Universe to enhance their productivity and encourage innovation through experimentation.
  • We work hard, we play together, we win as a team! We are on a mission to solve infrastructure while savoring the moment and celebrating the little details along the way.

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