Python Backend Developer Remote Jobs in Montreal, QC

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

Our employee promise represents Intact's commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.

Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.

• Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model

• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year

• Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more

• Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)

Salary range (but not limited to):

Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):

As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) - with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.

Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Developer (Python/React) to join our growing AI Engineering team and build reliable, scalable AI-powered products across distributed systems, frontend and backend development, cloud infrastructure, information extraction, and LLM services.

What you'll do here:

• Design and evolve event-driven, distributed systems using queue-based pipelines, fan-out/fan-in, backpressure, idempotency, and reliable failure and retry handling.
• Develop and maintain frontend and backend components that support our algorithms and AI-powered features.
• Build production LLM solutions, including cloud model integration and optimization of quality, latency, and cost.
• Develop information extraction pipelines covering classification, OCR, document layout analysis, model-based extraction, prompt design, refinement, and validation.
• Own frontend foundations, including monorepo package management, build orchestration, shared React components, TypeScript architecture, and build performance.
• Design and maintain Terraform infrastructure, including reusable modules, remote state, provider pinning, and multi-environment layouts.
• Contribute to AWS architecture, including networking, load balancing, API gateways, IAM, encryption and key management, and log and metric delivery.
• Design CI/CD workflows with reusable pipelines, environment matrices, and production approval gates.
• Support component, integration, and automated UI testing, including local test environments using emulated cloud services.
• Establish observability through structured logging, custom metrics, and queries that trace failures across distributed pipelines.
• Optimize containerized services for performance and cost through appropriate sizing, concurrency tuning, and bottleneck analysis.
• Define development standards and technical strategies that promote quality, efficiency, resilience, maintainability, and sustainability.
• Collaborate on prioritization, resolve technical issues, improve team productivity, and mentor Squad members as a Technical Leader.

What you bring to the table:

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, or a related field-or equivalent education and experience.
• At least five years of significant software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, React, AWS, and REST APIs using Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures, including asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, backpressure, and failure recovery.
• Experience with frontend architecture, monorepos, shared React component libraries, TypeScript type design, and build and bundle optimization.
• Experience with Terraform, including module design, remote state, provider pinning, and multi-environment infrastructure.
• Broad AWS knowledge covering networking, load balancing, API gateways, IAM, encryption, key management, logging, and metrics.
• Experience designing CI/CD systems with reusable workflows, environment matrices, and production approval processes.
• Production experience taking LLM- or model-backed features from prototype to reliable service, including cloud model integration and quality, latency, and cost management.
• Knowledge of AI, generative AI, RAG, MLOps, prompt design, OCR, document layout analysis, and information extraction.
• Experience with component, integration, and automated UI testing.
• Strong observability and troubleshooting skills, including structured logging, custom metrics, and tracing failures through distributed systems.
• Strong documentation and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada.
• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country

Nice-to-have:

• Experience leading migrations involving a dependency manager, CI platform, or infrastructure layout.
• Experience designing local development and integration-test environments using emulated cloud services.
• Experience optimizing containerized services for cost and performance, including workload sizing, concurrency tuning, and bottleneck analysis.
• Experience mentoring developers or serving as a Technical Lead.

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We are an equal opportunity employer

At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.

We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

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Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.