Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Python & Node.js backend services and modern React frontends, delivering reliable APIs and intuitive user experiences.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, leading features through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.
• Connect products with social media platforms, enterprise systems, external APIs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, handling authentication, data synchronization, and failures reliably.
• Make thoughtful decisions about application structure, data models, performance, and scalability, balancing delivery needs with long-term maintainability.
• Write clean, well-tested code, lead constructive code reviews, mentor developers, and improve engineering practices.
• Automation and Productivity: Use AI agents and tooling to build a robust, highly productive and fast paced engineering environment.
• Embed security, monitoring, and observability into applications; troubleshoot issues and improve reliability and performance.
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering to clarify requirements, identify risks, and deliver practical solutions.

Platform & DevOps

• Maintain efficient cloud infrastructure and development environments.
• Build and maintain data pipelines supporting AI products.
• Improve platform reliability, monitoring, logging, and performance.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and secure data handling.
• Implement secure deployment practices, CI/CD, and automated quality gates.
• Support dependency management, vulnerability remediation, and security testing.
• Ensure products follow secure coding standards and compliance requirements.
• High-quality product features delivered on schedule.
• Highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Well-documented systems that are easy to maintain and scale.

Requirements

• BSc or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience, including backend and full-stack delivery.
• Working familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build), Docker, and cloud infrastructure management.
• Experience developing full-stack applications and APIs using modern technologies.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, including the ability to support production environments and improve application reliability.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across product, engineering, infrastructure, and security teams in an Agile environment.
• Experience with TypeScript, React, Tailwind, and Node.js.
• Experience with untyped languages such as Python for backend development, along with relevant data management libraries.
• Familiarity with production application deployment and maintenance on AWS and/or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with data orchestration and pipeline management.
• Demonstrated experience owning and delivering projects end to end.

Preferred

• Experience integrating APIs, building automation workflows (e.g., n8n), and working with AI/LLM platforms such as Gemini, Vertex AI, OpenAI, or Claude.
• Familiarity with UX flows and writing specs/SOPs.
• Exposure to automation or agentic workflows.
• Hands-on experience with AI, LLM, and RAG-based systems.
• ‘Big Tech’ or large-scale product engineering experience.

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.

Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.

We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Join us as a

Senior Software Engineer

building the next generation of AI products.

This is a hands-on senior software development role: you'll spend roughly 80% of your time designing, building, and shipping full-stack product features and backend services, working with the latest AI, cloud, and developer technologies to deliver solutions used across the organization. The remaining ~20% is platform work — keeping the cloud environments, data pipelines, and deployment tooling behind our AI products reliable and secure.

Working closely with product and engineering, you will own features end to end — from technical design through release and iteration — while contributing to the CI/CD, infrastructure, and security practices that keep our AI platforms running well.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• Reliable data pipelines powering AI products.
• Secure applications with vulnerabilities identified and remediated early.
• Strong collaboration across engineering, product, and security teams.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• Working knowledge of application security, including secure coding, IAM, OAuth/SSO, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and security best practices.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL based systems.

PERKS & BENEFITS THAT SET US APART

We don’t just talk about balance, growth, and culture, we build for it:

Work-Life Flexibility

Hybrid setup, up to 28 paid days off and winter holiday shutdowns

Comprehensive Coverage

Health, dental, and vision plans, plus Salt Bucks to spend on what matters to you—wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off.

Growth-Driven Culture

Dedicated Salt Days, top-tier learning access, and formal leadership development.

Celebration-First Mentality

Legendary team trips, seasonal socials, and Salt Swag that reps your squad.

Real Rewards

Referral and new business bonuses, exclusive lifestyle perks, and personalized wellness options.

Culture of Belonging

DEI programs, active ERGs, and a workplace where every voice counts.

Salt of the Earth

We lead with humility, honesty, and heart—always.

Do What’s Right

No shortcuts. We choose integrity over ease, every time.

Earn Your Salt

We roll up our sleeves, chase results, and celebrate the journey.

Make Things Better

We’re solution-seekers, always pushing for smarter ways forward.

Seek Different Perspectives

Diversity fuels our thinking. Inclusion drives our impact.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $135,000–$165,000. Individual compensation within this range is determined based on job-related factors such as experience, skills, level of responsibility, internal equity, and business needs. This range represents the expected base salary for this role and does not include other elements of SALT’s total rewards program.

Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.