Senior Engineer- Artificial Intelligence

Tucows Domains is the world's largest wholesale domain registrar. We're looking for a seasoned Senior AI Engineer to join our growing AI team to design and build innovative AI-powered systems that transform how users interact with our domain-related tools and services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with recent focus on AI/LLM systems
• Advanced proficiency in Python and Golang
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns (SOLID, DRY, CQRS, Saga, event-driven)
• Deep understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Proven experience building distributed, highly available systems at scale
• Strong system design expertise: APIs, async processing, backpressure, fault tolerance
• Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Strong engineering practices: TDD, CI/CD, code reviews, and technical debt management
• Experience writing and communicating Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, schema design, and query optimization
• LLM & AI Application Engineering experience
• RAG & Knowledge Systems experience
• Agentic Systems & Tooling experience
• Evaluation, Observability & Production Readiness experience
• Security & Responsible AI experience
• Infrastructure & Deployment experience
• Leadership & Collaboration experience

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Visa Sponsorship
• Four Day Work Week
• Generous Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Relocation Assistance