Full Stack Engineer, Optix
AI Lead
Offers Employee Stock Option Plan
60% time spent in office
3 days a week in office (Gastown, Vancouver)
Platform to manage coworking spaces
Be an early applicant
Platform to manage coworking spaces
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers Employee Stock Option Plan
60% time spent in office
3 days a week in office (Gastown, Vancouver)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable flex spaces with the best user experience.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years full-stack development with modern frameworks, at least 3 years working with SaaS platforms
- Demonstrable experience integrating AI into development workflows (code generation, QA, CI/CD, automated code reviews, intelligent testing)
- Experience transitioning an existing team and large codebase to an AI-first development process
- Excellent back-end or systems programming knowledge, you have experience working with PHP/Laravel and MySQL
- Experience building and scaling backend systems with REST/GraphQL APIs
- Solid understanding of databases; data engineering experience a plus
- 2+ years hands-on experience with AI APIs and production AI deployments
- Integration patterns for LLMs in existing application architectures
- Experience with back-end tools like Git, unit testing, continuous integration and Linux command line skills
- You're able to clearly articulate the benefits of introducing AI into an existing development process in a secure and maintainable way
- You're empathetic and can work both independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment
Desirable
- Data engineering experience: ETL pipelines, vector databases, embedding management
- Deployment expertise: Containerization, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), monitoring AI systems in production
- Prior experience leading projects or mentoring engineers
- Knowledge of micro-services and event-driven architectures
What the job involves
- Optix is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide our engineering team through the shift to an AI-first development process — and serve as an internal evangelist for how AI transforms the way we build
- In this role, you’ll combine hands-on technical contributions with leadership responsibilities, setting the foundation for how AI integrates across our product and development practices
- Beyond building AI-powered features, you’ll mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and champion the adoption of AI-first tools and approaches
- This is a unique opportunity to drive transformation in a profitable SaaS company, shaping both the product and the team as we evolve from a rules-based automation platform into a conversational, agentic workspace management system
- You’ll collaborate directly with the leadership team to ensure Optix not only builds world-class AI capabilities but also does so with a sustainable, scalable engineering culture where AI-first thinking becomes second nature
- Serve alongside Optix's leadership, establishing best practices and development standards
- Guide the team's transition to AI-first development workflows and tooling
- Collaborate with product leadership to translate business objectives into technical AI solutions
- Design and build AI-powered features including intelligent sales widgets, automated message generation, and predictive workflow optimization
- Architect scalable AI systems that integrate seamlessly with our existing automations platform
- Implement evaluation frameworks to continuously improve AI feature performance
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI across our platform for maximum customer impact
- Build the technical foundation for our vision of conversational, agentic workspace management
- Drive adoption of AI development tools and practices across the engineering team
Our take
Making the most out of your flexible workspace isn't easy. Optix helps ease this problem by connecting users with the community, resources, and services that workplaces have to offer.
As a spin-off of successful coworking space company ShareDesk, Optix has had an advantage over its competitors since the beginning. The company has attracted businesses like 1880, The Cloud Room, and Thrive.
The increase in remote and flexible workers has paid off for Optix, and the company is well-positioned to scale dramatically over the coming years. It will need to innovate its app and attract more coworking brands if it is to consolidate its progress.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2016
$2.6m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $2.6m
Company benefits
- Strong Employee Stock Option Plan offering
- Excellent health and dental coverage program provided by Sunlife
- Mission-driven workplace experience with a positive, collaborative and supportive team culture
- Personal and professional growth opportunities
- Healthy snacks and locally roasted coffee – slow pour is our jam
- Weekly team lunches and socials
- Annual health and fitness credit
- Fun offsite activities that allow us to reconnect as a team
- A beautiful, waterfront Gastown office and a flexible hybrid workplace plan
Company HQ
Gastown, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Kia Rahmani
(CEO)Previously founded StartupsXL, a coworking provider for tech startups.
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