Lead Developer

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Full-time Other-General
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Location
toronto, on, Canada
Posted
June 01, 2026

Job Description

Job Description Saatchi & Saatchi is seeking a Lead Developer for an innovative AI platform initiative. You have 8+ years building production software systems and at least a few years leading or anchoring a team technically. You are a handsโ€‘on builder and you hold the architectural picture of a multiโ€‘tier platform โ€” React frontend, Spring Boot backend, FastAPI agentic services, agent SDKs on top of LLM providers. You are equally comfortable reviewing a database migration, debugging a prod incident, mentoring a senior engineer, or sitting in a client architecture conversation. You thrive at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and program reality.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction across the platform's tiers โ€” frontend, backend, agentic/AI services, data, and integrations โ€” and hold the shared mental model of how the system actually fits together.

Pair closely with the Senior Technical PM and Program Director to translate product intent in...