Software Engineer, AI & Automation - Canada

The role

You will build production software and AI-enabled systems to automate security workflows. You will develop internal platforms, developer tooling, and scalable pipelines within the Security organization.

What you will do

• Design and build AI-enabled workflows and multi-agent systems.
• Build retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search experiences.
• Create automated code-review capabilities.
• Build production Python services and APIs.
• Design and operate scalable pipelines for code, documents, and events.
• Improve AI system quality through evaluation frameworks and experiment management.
• Manage production tradeoffs like latency, reliability, and cost.
• Design integrations with GitHub, Slack, Jira, Confluence, and LLM providers.
• Apply security controls to AI applications.
• Identify new opportunities for software, automation, and AI augmentation.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production software.
• Strong Python proficiency, including hands-on experience building production backend services and APIs.
• Experience designing maintainable backend architectures.
• Experience developing distributed or cloud-based systems.
• Hands-on experience building production AI-enabled applications or automations using LLM APIs, agents/tool use, RAG/retrieval, or comparable architectures.
• Experience defining, evaluating, and improving the quality of AI-enabled systems in production.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, identify opportunities independently, and move technical work from idea to implementation.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions, tradeoffs, and limitations clearly.
• Interest in secure software development and willingness to build deeper expertise in application security and AI security.

Nice to have

• Traditional security engineering background

Benefits

• Monthly Healthcare Stipend
• Rejuvenation Policy – Vacation Time Off + official public holidays in your province
• Paid sabbatical
• Monthly Wellness Stipend
• Wifi Stipend
• Cell Phone Stipend
• Work from home equipment stipend
• Nerd-led group initiatives
• Hackathons and team events
• Company-wide events like NerdLove and annual Charity Auction
• RRSP with a 4% match
• Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP)

About the company

NerdWallet builds tools and experiences that help people make smarter financial decisions. It is a remote-first company.