Software Engineer

About the role

ROLE: SOFTWARE ENGINEER TEAM: MEDIA LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID)

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.

Our mission is to “Earn The World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results.

We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Join us as a Software Engineer building the next generation of AI products. This hands-on engineering role combines Platform Engineering, Security, and Software Development to create the cloud platform that powers our applications at scale. You'll spend approximately 50% of your time building secure, automated, and reliable infrastructure, and the other 50% developing innovative product features - working with the latest cloud, AI, and developer technologies to deliver solutions used across the organization. You will build, secure, and operate modern cloud-based applications and AI platforms, developing new product features while helping ensure our infrastructure is secure, scalable, and reliable.

Working closely with product and engineering, you will develop new product features while managing cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, application security, and production operations across our AI platforms.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Infrastructure & Data Platform Engineering

- Maintain efficient cloud Infrastructure, and development environments.

- Develop integrations with social media platforms, enterprise systems, and external APIs/MCPs.

- Improve platform reliability, monitoring, logging, and performance.

- Build and maintain data pipelines supporting AI products.

- Ensure data quality, governance, and secure data handling.

DevOps & Security

- Implement secure deployment practices and automated quality gates.

- Perform vulnerability assessments, dependency management, and security testing.

- Support penetration testing, remediation, and security hardening initiatives.

- Ensure products follow secure coding standards and compliance requirements.

Software Engineering

- Design, develop, and maintain full-stack web applications and APIs.

- Build scalable backend services and modern frontend experiences.

- Participate in architecture, code reviews, and technical design discussions.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE