Job Specifications
Department: Technology & Product
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Remote, Canada
Reporting To: Job Title of Hiring Manager
Description
Veriforce is seeking a software engineer with hands-on experience building AI agents and/or working with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). You will join a growing team of talented front-end, back-end, QA, and DevOps engineers, to expand our platforms to integrate with LLMs, APIs, and enterprise data. Your work will help shape the way our clients and contractors get to work faster, stay compliant, and come home safely every day.
What that means day-to-day:
Participate as an integral member of a cross functional full-stack team using agile methodologies
Work in an Agile based SDLC that embraces the principles of transparency, cooperation, decomposing work, and rapid iteration
Design and develop AI agents capable of reasoning, planning, and taking multi-step actions to support user journeys/workflows
Build and extend MCP servers/clients for structured, interoperable AI integrations
Integrate models with application APIs, databases, and 3rd party tools
Ability to break complex features into manageable, reviewable, shippable pieces
Ability to communicate clearly with engineers about implementation choices, design considerations, performance impacts, and testability.
Ability to communicate with non-engineers about how technology is solving business needs. Including demonstrating features for feedback.
Ability to methodically debug problems to resolve issues at the root
Constructively and attentively review pull requests and have his or hers reviewed
Produce code that adheres to coding standards of consistency, readability, testability, security, and maintainability. Ability to leverage AI coding assistance (i.e. Copilot, etc.).
Write meaningful, efficient tests for important parts of an application
What you’ll need to be successful:
3 to 5+ years of development experience (C#, Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar)
Hands-on experience building LLM-based agents or orchestrators
Familiarity with MCP concepts: context servers, standardization tool integration, and protocol-base communication.
Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and cloud native architectures.
Experience with prompt engineering, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
Familiarity with containerization technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Racher, etc.
Knowledge of tools of contemporary engineering, specially: project boards (JIRA), source control (i.e. GitHub, Bitbucket), package managers, build systems, etc.
Experience with, or the disposition to embrace, the usage of AI assisted coding practices
What you’ll get in return:
We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work, and believe that if you look after your people, they look after everything else!
Personal Health & Wellbeing
> Integrated mental health & wellbeing support
> Vacation – starting at 3 weeks
> Wellness Days & Annual Giving Day – an extra to give back to yourself or your community
> Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
> End of the year, company-wide shut down for you to relax and recharge
Future Planning
> LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development
Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements?
Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we consider applications that might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us!
Bring Your Whole Self To Work.
Veriforce/Alcumus is proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.
What you can expect if you apply:
A response to your application within 15 working days
An interview process consisting of:
An initial discovery call with the recruiter
A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
Additional interview with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role
We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.
About the Company
We help create better workplaces, and help to keep people safe, reduce risks and simplify processes through our expert teams and technology.
Since 1979, we’ve been providing our clients with market-leading compliance and risk management solutions. We have expanded over the years to include certification, HR and health and safety consultancy for SMEs, and training expertise, resulting in the Alcumus business that exists today.
By building great relationships with our customers, we understand their needs and provide a range...
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