About the RoleAs a Software Engineering Consultant at Netlight, you will join a collaborative, ambitious, and mutually supportive environment where you define your own journey. You’ll partner with industry-leading clients to solve real business challenges, tackle a variety of technical domains, and grow alongside a brand-new Toronto team. The role has a lot in common with a forward deployed engineer position: you’ll be embedded directly with client teams, building and shipping solutions on the ground to solve their most pressing problems.

• A Day in the Life at NetlightAs a Software Engineer on our team, you will:Design and build robust, scalable software systems in close collaboration with engineers, product managers, and designers.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of software development, from system design and implementation to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Develop high-quality, scalable solutions for complex challenges across distributed systems, APIs, data, and user-facing applications.
• Use and build with AI day-to-day - from AI-assisted coding to designing and shipping AI-powered features - to move faster and deliver more value to clients.

• What Makes Netlight DifferentAt Netlight, instead of predefined roles, we tailor positions to fit individuals. On the basis of your experience, strengths, interests and market demand; You take charge of your career path by defining the roles you take on with a variety of clients.
• Netlight is a highly engaged network organisation where you engage with peers, seniors, mentors, coaches, EDGE networks, and social circles.
• We build solutions across diverse domains- backend, frontend, cloud, mobile, data engineering, infrastructure, product, UX/UI, and more.
• We have a flat organizational structure with no traditional bosses. We foster collaboration, autonomy, and shared responsibility, empowering everyone to contribute and shape their own career path.

• Qualifications we are looking for Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
• 1-4 years’ experience in software engineering.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).
• Based in Toronto; this is a 100% in-person role.
• Legally eligible to work in Ontario, Canada.
• Curiosity about multiple industries and technologies.
• Tech agnostic mindset with proficiency and experience in: C++, Java (Spring Boot), Python (FastAPI, Django), Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), SQL.
• Proficiency with using and building with AI: comfortable working with AI coding assistants/agents, and experience integrating AI or LLM capabilities into products.
• Strong Communication Skills.
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