Hey there! We’re ContactMonkey 👋

Our mission? To power measurable employee engagement worldwide. And we’d love for you to join us!

About the job - AI Architect 

ContactMonkey's platform already runs AI in production - Claude-powered template editing, a standalone ConfidenceCheck service that evaluates outgoing emails for editorial quality and link safety, Braintrust-backed evaluations, and per-organization feature gating. The next wave is bigger: grounded assistants, retrieval over customer brand and campaign history, richer agentic flows inside the composer, and data products that make sending decisions smarter.

We're forming a dedicated AI pod to own that trajectory. With the team you will be setting the technical direction for the pod, make the foundational infrastructure bets (vector store, evals, data warehouse, agent orchestration), and ship the first production systems yourself. This is an architect role in the sense that you own the shape of the thing - it is not a role where you stop writing code.

Your impact

• AI platform direction: Model selection and routing, prompt and context architecture, evaluation strategy, cost and latency budgets, safety and PII handling. Decide where we go deeper with frontier models, where we fine-tune smaller ones, and where classical ML beats an LLM.
• Retrieval and grounding infrastructure: You'll pick it, design the ingestion path (brand kits, past campaigns, template library, per-org knowledge), own the chunking/embedding/refresh strategy, and set the quality bar via evals.
• Agent and tool-use patterns: Multi-turn tool-calling loops, deterministic fallbacks, observability, recoverable failure modes across Sidekiq and SQS, human-in-the-loop checkpoints where they matter.
• Data engineering foundations: You'll decide whether we need a warehouse (BigQuery / Snowflake / DuckDB-on-S3/ RedShift), design the pipelines that feed both product analytics and model training/eval datasets, and make sure the lineage is clean enough that we trust what we ship. Build a foundation for the next level data analytics across the company.
• Cloud and deployment architecture: We run on AWS (ECS, S3, SQS etc). You'll make the calls on how AI services are deployed - when a new microservice like ConfidenceCheck is the right pattern vs. embedding in the Rails monolith, how we handle GPU/accelerated inference if we ever need it, how we isolate model spend per tenant.

What we expect from you technically

You should be credible across all four of AI, Cloud, Data, and Fullstack - not a specialist in one with passing knowledge of the others. 

Concretely:

AI / ML

• Built and operated LLM-backed features in production against real users.
• Deep familiarity with at least one major provider SDK (Anthropic, OpenAI) and comfort switching between them. Understand prompt caching, structured outputs, tool use, and the tradeoffs between agent loops and pipeline-style orchestration.
• Evals are a reflex, not an afterthought. You've run a real eval harness (Braintrust, promptfoo, in-house) against golden datasets and used it to block regressions.
• Working knowledge of retrieval systems: embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, and where each breaks. Opinions on pgvector vs. dedicated vector DBs and when either is wrong.
• Bonus: fine-tuning or distillation experience, classical ML for ranking/classification, prompt-injection and jailbreak threat modelling.

Cloud

• AWS fluency at the architecture level - VPCs, IAM boundaries, secrets management, queue-based decoupling, cost control. Equally comfortable if we need to run a workload on GCP for a specific reason.
• Container-native deployment (ECS, EKS, or equivalent). IaC experience (Terraform or CDK) - even if we aren't using it yet, you should expect to bring it in.
• Have operated production systems under real load. You've been paged, and you've written the postmortem.

Data Engineering

• Can design a data pipeline end-to-end: ingestion, transformation, storage, serving. Batch and streaming. Have built this in at least one real organization.
• Comfortable with SQL and non SQL at a level that lets you reason about query plans, not just write queries. You've tuned a slow query by looking at the plan, not by guessing.
• Opinion on when a warehouse earns its keep vs. when read replicas are enough. We're at that decision point.
• Bonus: dbt, Airflow / Dagster / Prefect, CDC patterns, multi-tenant data partitioning at scale.

Fullstack

• Our backend is Ruby 3.4 on Rails 7.2 with Sidekiq Pro and SQS; our frontends are Vue 3 (main app), Nuxt 4 (recipient-facing content), and a Fastify/TypeScript AI microservice. You don't need all of this on day one, but you should be a polyglot who ramps quickly.
• Write real TypeScript. The AI-adjacent services are TS-first and that is likely to grow.
• Understand API design past the happy path - versioning, auth modes (we run session auth for the main API and bearer tokens for integrations), rate limiting, idempotency.

What we bring to the table 

🏥 100% employer-paid benefits + a Health Spending Account from day one

🌎 Work from anywhere in the world for up to 4 weeks

💰 Stock option plan—own a piece of our success

💲 RRSP Group Savings Plan to plan for your future

🏝 Generous vacation package to recharge and relax

📚 Personal development budget to fuel your growth

🧖 One personal day + two volunteering days to give back

🎂 Your Birthday off—celebrate on us!

🍎 Five health days per year to stay at your best

💼 Beautiful downtown Toronto office for hybrid work—fully stocked with all the best snacks

Compensation & Work Details

Compensation is thoughtfully determined based on your experience, skill set, and alignment with our internal compensation framework and internal equity.

We’re always happy to answer questions about compensation throughout the hiring process.

This is a net new position based out of our downtown Toronto office, at King and Spadina. Our engineering team works primarily remote but we are looking for someone who is willing to come into the office occasionally on an as needed basis.

Who We Are 

Imagine being part of a team of brilliant minds, all shaping the future of workplace communication. Here at ContactMonkey, we’re not just sending out traditional emails with our internal comms software; we’re changing the way companies connect and communicate with their people. Brands like IKEA, Roku, KMPG, and countless others are using our solution to transform employee engagement.

Our all-in-one platform—featuring a drag-and-drop email builder, engagement tools, and analytics—makes it easy for businesses to create, send, and measure their internal email campaigns directly within Outlook or Gmail. This way, internal communications go from being ignored to binge-worthy, sparking more opens, clicks, and conversations.

We’ve been on an explosive growth streak over the past few years, and we’re not slowing down anytime soon. Here’s a bit of what we’re proud of:

• Ranked by the Globe & Mail as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies
• Recognized in 2023, 2024 and 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ awards for revenue growth over the past four years
• Recognized in 2023, 2024 and 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America
• Raised $55 million Series A financing in 2023

Diversity is our strength

At ContactMonkey, we are building diverse products and we need a diverse team to do that. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. 

We are committed to creating an accessible experience for all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments during the interview process or beyond, please inform us, and we will work with you to ensure the necessary support is in place. We are continually striving to enhance our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better serve candidates with accessibility.

AI Disclosure: 

We use AI to take notes during our interview. Applications and interviews are reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team. Our applicant tracking system utilizes AI for workflows and hiring process efficiencies.

Hey there! We’re ContactMonkey 👋

Our mission? To power measurable employee engagement worldwide. And we’d love for you to join us!

About the job - AI Engineer

Join the Engineering Team, where you’ll help shape and build our agentic future. 

You’ll work closely with our Product and Engineering Teams, and our Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO), to turn vision into reality, partnering with a small, high-impact team to design, prototype, and ship AI-powered capabilities quickly. This role is hands-on and iterative, focused on building production-grade agentic workflows that improve how internal communications are curated, designed, delivered, measured, and orchestrated.

Your impact

• Architectural Ownership: Contribute to the technical vision for our AI layer, driving technology adoption and research initiatives from spike to task breakdown, with a focus on core AI infrastructure to ensure our systems are robust and scalable.
• Agentic Design & Orchestration: Move beyond simple features to architect and implement robust agentic workflows, multi-agent systems, intelligent system behaviors, and orchestration patterns (e.g., dynamic routing, autonomous agents, feedback loops).
• Strategic Execution & Experimentation: Operate with autonomy by building and executing against a 3-month strategic roadmap while refining work as you learn. Design and execute different approaches and experimentation frameworks to benchmark model value, measure success, and systematically iterate on prompts and model configurations.
• Production Ownership & Reliability: Own the reliability and scalability of AI subsystems in production, so our AI layer stays trustworthy as it grows. This includes designing and implementing comprehensive testing strategies that move beyond existing framework, focusing on systematic testing of LLM responses and failure modes.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with Product Management and the CPTO to translate business vision into concrete technical specifications and product-facing or internal workflow automation tools.
• Lead by Example: Be active within your team and the company. Participate in meetings; volunteer to lead initiatives; escalate questions or issues when necessary. Act as a subject matter expert for complex subsystem troubleshooting, cross-org dependencies, and architectural reviews, including how to structure and maintain documentation (e.g., using agents, markdown, or external Knowledge Bases).
• Cultural Stewardship: Be a full participant in helping the engineering culture evolve as we grow.

About you

• You hold a Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years building AI/ML or data-driven systems in production SaaS environments
• You possess deep technical proficiency in AI systems, including handling complex subsystem interactions and dependencies.
• You've moved LLM work past prototypes into production—thinking through eval frameworks, monitoring output quality, and iterating on prompts based on real-world performance.
• You understand how to structure LLM calls for reliability: using function calling to ground outputs, testing responses systematically, and designing for failure modes (hallucinations, latency, cost).
• You have working knowledge of multi-agent orchestration frameworks and RAG architectures, including vector stores.
• You prioritize a "question first, then answer" approach, thinking critically about problems before committing to a code path.
• You bring intellectual humility, empathy, and strong listening skills to the team; you lead by example.
• You are able to work collaboratively and independently.
• You are comfortable with agile development.
• You have excellent oral and written communication skills.

How you can stand out 

• You have designed and shipped autonomous workflows where LLMs reason across multiple steps, make decisions based on tool outputs, and adapt their behavior based on feedback.
• You have previous experience working within the email ecosystem or similar high-scale communication platforms.
• You have a proven track record of rapid prototyping, iterating quickly on features, and leveraging data to pivot when necessary.
• You act as a catalyst for new engineering principles and tools within your current organization, helping to raise the technical bar for your peers.

What we bring to the table 

🏥 100% employer-paid benefits + a Health Spending Account from day one

🌎 Work from anywhere in the world for up to 4 weeks

💰 Stock option plan—own a piece of our success

💲 RRSP Group Savings Plan to plan for your future

🏝 Generous vacation package to recharge and relax

📚 Personal development budget to fuel your growth

🧖 One personal day + two volunteering days to give back

🎂 Your Birthday off—celebrate on us!

🍎 Five health days per year to stay at your best

💼 Beautiful downtown Toronto office for hybrid work—fully stocked with all the best snacks

Compensation & Work Details

Compensation is thoughtfully determined based on your experience, skill set, and alignment with our internal compensation framework and internal equity.

We’re always happy to answer questions about compensation throughout the hiring process.

This is a net new position for our AI Engineering Team based out of our downtown Toronto office, at King and Spadina. Our team works in the office 3x per week or as needed to promote collaboration 

Who We Are 

Imagine being part of a team of brilliant minds, all shaping the future of workplace communication. Here at ContactMonkey, we’re not just sending out traditional emails with our internal comms software; we’re changing the way companies connect and communicate with their people. Brands like IKEA, Roku, KMPG, and countless others are using our solution to transform employee engagement.

Our all-in-one platform—featuring a drag-and-drop email builder, engagement tools, and analytics—makes it easy for businesses to create, send, and measure their internal email campaigns directly within Outlook or Gmail. This way, internal communications go from being ignored to binge-worthy, sparking more opens, clicks, and conversations.

We’ve been on an explosive growth streak over the past few years, and we’re not slowing down anytime soon. Here’s a bit of what we’re proud of:

• Ranked by the Globe & Mail as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies
• Recognized in 2023, 2024 and 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ awards for revenue growth over the past four years
• Recognized in 2023, 2024 and 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America
• Raised $55 million Series A financing in 2023

Diversity is our strength

At ContactMonkey, we are building diverse products and we need a diverse team to do that. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. 

We are committed to creating an accessible experience for all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments during the interview process or beyond, please inform us, and we will work with you to ensure the necessary support is in place. We are continually striving to enhance our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better serve candidates with accessibility.

AI Disclosure: 

We use AI to take notes during our interview. Applications and interviews are reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team. Our applicant tracking system utilizes AI for workflows and hiring process efficiencies.