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This is a highly hands-on engineering role. You’ll work directly with business operators and technical teams, taking projects from identifying the right opportunity through development, deployment, optimization, and handoff. You’ll have the opportunity to build systems that are actively used in real-world operations rather than working solely on prototypes or internal tooling.\nWhat You’ll Do\nWork directly with portfolio companies to understand their workflows, pain points, and business priorities.\n\nIdentify high-impact opportunities where AI and agentic workflows can improve efficiency or outcomes.\n\nBuild and deploy end-to-end solutions, including backend integrations, agent workflows, prompts, evaluations, and user-facing interfaces.\n\nMonitor production systems and continuously improve their reliability, performance, and level of autonomy.\n\nPartner closely with general managers and other non-technical stakeholders to translate business needs into practical technical solutions.\n\nTake ownership of deployments from initial discovery through production rollout and stabilization.\n\nDocument successful approaches, technical patterns, and lessons learned so they can be reused across other businesses.\n\nTravel regularly to portfolio company locations and work closely with teams on-site.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\n3-6 years of experience in full-stack engineering, customer-facing software engineering, solutions engineering, or forward-deployed engineering.\n\nStrong full-stack development skills, including TypeScript or Python, React, and SQL.\n\nExperience building and deploying production LLM or agentic applications, rather than experimental demos alone.\n\nFamiliarity with evaluations, monitoring, autonomy controls, and measuring outcomes for AI-powered systems.\n\nExperience working directly with customers, operators, or business stakeholders.\n\nAbility to independently take a project from understanding the problem through implementation and production deployment.\n\nStrong business judgment and the ability to understand operational workflows and translate them into technical solutions.\n\nComfortable communicating with both highly technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nLocation & Work ModelToronto\n\nHybrid role with a minimum of 3 days per week in-office; 4 days preferred.\n\nApproximately 2-3 days per week of domestic travel to portfolio company locations.\n\nCompensation$180,000-$260,000\n\nCompetitive equity package\n\nTechnology\nTypeScript\n\nPython\n\nReact\n\nSQL\n\nLLMs / Foundation Models\n\nAgentic Workflows\n\nEvals\n\nSnowflake\n\nDatabricks\n\nApache Iceberg\n\nEvent-driven Systems\n\nAbout the Company\nThey are a technology-focused software holding company that acquires, builds, and grows vertical-market software businesses for the long term. 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