Lead Software Engineer - AI, Data Visualization & Platform
Astucemedia
ENG (FRA Below) -----
Astucemedia is a global leader in innovative creative and software solutions for real-time data visualization on live TV, studios, museums, immersive experiences, and sports venues. Our software and services enhance augmented reality graphics, virtual sets, video walls, interactive apps, and on-screen overlays across television and digital platforms.
We’re a team of passionate trailblazers who thrive on creativity, collaboration, and cutting-edge technology—and we’re looking for someone who’s just as excited to shape the future with us.
With our proprietary Data Platform software and plugins for real-time graphics engines by Vizrt, Unreal, and Unity, Astucemedia stands at the forefront of data-driven graphics for finance, sports, and elections. Our esteemed clients include ABC News/Disney, NBC Universal, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, beIN Sports, NFL Network, BNN Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, CBC, Radio-Canada, Sky News Arabia, Al Arabiya, Dubai TV, The Media Majlis Museum in Qatar, and Times Square.
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Astucemedia est un leader mondial reconnu pour ses solutions créatives et logicielles innovantes dédiées à la visualisation de données en temps réel. Nos technologies s’intègrent dans des contextes variés tels que la diffusion en direct à la télévision, les studios, les musées, les expériences immersives et les enceintes sportives. Nous révolutionnons les graphiques en réalité augmentée, les décors virtuels, les murs vidéo, les applications interactives et les superpositions à l’écran sur les plateformes télévisuelles et numériques.
Avec notre logiciel propriétaire Data Platform et nos plugins compatibles avec les moteurs graphiques en temps réel tel qu'Unreal, Unity, Vizrt, Ventuz, Astucemedia s’impose comme un acteur de premier plan dans les graphiques interactifs, notamment pour les nouvelles, la finance, le sport et les élections.
Nous sommes fiers de collaborer avec des clients prestigieux tels que ABC News/Disney, NBC Universal, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, beIN Sports, NFL Network, BNN Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, CBC, Radio-Canada, Sky News Arabia, Al Arabiya, Dubai TV, The Media Majlis Museum au Qatar et Times Square.
Job Description
ENG (FRA Below)
Hands-on Engineering + Architecture + AI Adoption + Data Visualization + Platform Evolution
As Lead Software Engineer – AI, Data Visualization & Platform, you will help bridge architectural vision, product innovation, advanced visualization, and day-to-day engineering execution.
You will work closely with our Lead Solutions Architect, Products Integrative Director, Technical Project Manager, and Staff and Senior Developers across front-end and back-end teams. You will contribute to both our current production platform and the next generation of our technology.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role, with approximately 70% of your time dedicated to technical execution and 30% focused on technical leadership, mentorship, and team development.
You will bring strong software engineering experience, architectural thinking, curiosity, and a practical interest in AI and emerging technologies.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical Leadership, AI Adoption & Delivery (30%)
- Mentor and support developers while fostering a culture of technical excellence, curiosity, and continuous learning.
- Drive the practical adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows across the engineering team.
- Establish effective practices and guidelines for using AI while maintaining strong standards for code quality, testing, security, and code review.
- Collaborate with the Lead Solutions Architect on architecture, system design, and technical direction.
- Partner with the Products Integrative Director to explore and translate new product ideas into technical solutions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and prototype approaches that can create meaningful product or engineering advantages.
- Work closely with the Technical Project Manager to ensure technical feasibility, identify risks, and support reliable delivery.
- Participate in occasional onsite deployments and international travel when required.
2. Technical Excellence & Hands-on Development (70%)
- Write and maintain production-quality code for critical system components across the full stack.
- Evolve and progressively modernize our Angular and C#/.NET Core platform.
- Contribute to scalable architectures, distributed systems, APIs, data flows, and third-party integrations.
- Help introduce next-generation capabilities involving cloud-native applications, containerization, event-driven systems, and modern deployment practices.
- Develop and integrate AI-powered features into production software, helping move initiatives from experimentation to reliable capabilities.
- Contribute to AI applications involving LLMs, agents, RAG, embeddings, intelligent search, workflow orchestration, and related technologies.
- Help develop advanced, interactive, and real-time data visualization experiences for complex datasets such as financial markets, elections, sports, mapping, and dashboards.
- Optimize real-time data systems, integrations, performance, reliability, and deployment processes.
- Collaborate with Staff and Senior Developers on technical design and code reviews.
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Développement logiciel et architecture pratiques + Adoption de l'IA + Visualisation de données + Évolution de la plateforme
À titre de Lead Software Engineer – AI, Data Visualization & Platform, vous contribuerez à faire le lien entre la vision architecturale, l'innovation produit, la visualisation avancée et l'exécution quotidienne des travaux d'ingénierie.
Vous travaillerez en étroite collaboration avec notre Lead Solutions Architect, notre Products Integrative Director, notre Technical Project Manager ainsi que les développeurs Staff et Senior des équipes front-end et back-end. Vous contribuerez à la fois à notre plateforme actuellement en production et à la prochaine génération de nos technologies.
Il s'agit d'un rôle de leadership technique axé sur la pratique. Environ 70 % de votre temps sera consacré à l'exécution technique, tandis que 30 % sera consacré au leadership technique, au mentorat et au développement de l'équipe.
Vous mettrez à profit votre solide expérience en génie logiciel, votre capacité à réfléchir à l'architecture, votre curiosité et votre intérêt pratique pour l'IA et les technologies émergentes.
Responsabilités principales
1. Leadership technique, adoption de l'IA et réalisation (30 %)
- Accompagner et soutenir les développeurs tout en favorisant une culture d'excellence technique, de curiosité et d'apprentissage continu;
- Favoriser l'adoption pratique des outils et méthodes de développement assistés par l'IA au sein de l'équipe d'ingénierie;
- Établir des pratiques et des lignes directrices pour utiliser l'IA efficacement, tout en maintenant des standards élevés de qualité du code, de tests, de sécurité et de revue de code;
- Collaborer avec le Lead Solutions Architect sur l'architecture, la conception des systèmes et les orientations techniques;
- Travailler avec le Products Integrative Director, afin d'explorer de nouvelles idées et de les transformer en solutions techniques;
- Évaluer les technologies émergentes et créer des prototypes pouvant apporter une réelle valeur au produit ou à l'ingénierie.
- Collaborer étroitement avec le Technical Project Manager afin d'assurer la faisabilité technique, d'identifier les risques et de soutenir une livraison fiable.
- Participer occasionnellement à des déploiements sur site et à des déplacements internationaux lorsque requis.
2. Excellence technique et développement pratique (70 %)
- Contribuer au développement et à la maintenance de composantes critiques, en veillant à la qualité et à la fiabilité du code à travers l'ensemble de la pile technologique;
- Faire évoluer et moderniser progressivement notre plateforme Angular et C#/.NET Core;
- Contribuer à la conception d'architectures évolutives, de systèmes distribués, d'API, de flux de données et d'intégrations avec des sources tierces;
- Participer à l'introduction de nouvelles capacités liées aux applications cloud-native, à la conteneurisation, aux systèmes orientés événements et aux pratiques modernes de déploiement.
- Développer et intégrer des fonctionnalités alimentées par l'IA dans des logiciels en production, en contribuant à faire passer les initiatives de l'expérimentation à des solutions fiables;
- Contribuer à des applications d'IA impliquant les grands modèles de langage, les agents, le RAG, les embeddings, la recherche intelligente, l'orchestration de flux de travail et d'autres technologies connexes;
- Participer au développement d'expériences de visualisation de données avancées, interactives et en temps réel pour des ensembles de données complexes, notamment dans les marchés financiers, les élections, le sport, la cartographie et les tableaux de bord;
- Optimiser les systèmes de données en temps réel, les intégrations, la performance, la fiabilité et les processus de déploiement;
- Collaborer avec les développeurs Staff et Senior lors des revues de code et des discussions de conception technique.
Qualifications
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Essential Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional software development experience.
- Experience in a senior technical role, such as Lead, Staff, Principal, Technical Lead, or equivalent.
- Strong hands-on experience with software development and system design.
- Experience designing scalable applications, APIs, distributed systems, or complex data flows.
- Professional experience with C#/.NET and Angular/TypeScript, or closely related technologies.
- Experience working with cloud-based, distributed, or real-time applications.
- Practical experience applying AI or Generative AI to software development, engineering workflows, or products.
- Ability to move between detailed technical implementation, architecture, and broader product discussions.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with demanding deadlines.
- A hands-on mindset: this is not a management-only position.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
Experience in one or more of the following areas would be an asset:
- AI-assisted coding, software modernization, or developer enablement.
- LLM applications, agents, tool calling, RAG, embeddings, vector search, or workflow orchestration.
- Production AI systems, including considerations related to reliability, latency, cost, security, privacy, observability, and evaluation.
- Advanced data visualization using technologies such as D3.js, Highcharts, ECharts, Plotly, Three.js, Canvas, SVG, WebGL, or WebGPU.
- Geospatial visualization, mapping, dashboards, or other data-intensive interactive applications.
- Real-time data technologies such as Kafka, WebSockets, messaging systems, or event-driven architectures.
- SQL and NoSQL databases, high-volume data processing, or distributed data transformation.
- Docker, Git, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Python, FastAPI, or other technologies supporting AI and data applications.
- Experience working in live broadcast, media, financial, sports, or other high-stakes data environments.
- French language skills.
The Profile We Are Looking For
You are comfortable moving between code, components, systems, architecture, and product.
You can dive into a .NET service to solve a production issue, collaborate with the Lead Solutions Architect on a technical approach, work with the Products Integrative Director to explore new capabilities, and help turn an idea or prototype into a reliable production solution.
You stay curious and technically current. You are willing to experiment, challenge assumptions constructively, and introduce innovation without compromising quality.
You are also motivated by helping others grow: sharing knowledge, mentoring developers, and helping teams adopt better tools and practices.
Years of experience alone do not define success in this role. We are looking for someone who brings strong technical judgment, practical creativity, and the desire to help move both the technology and the team forward.
Potential Backgrounds
We are open to candidates with different professional backgrounds, including:
- Lead Software Engineer
- Staff or Principal Software Engineer
- Technical Lead
- Senior Software Architect
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer with technical leadership experience
- Engineering Lead or Senior Developer with a strong hands-on focus
Job titles matter less than the depth of your technical expertise, your ability to remain hands-on, your architectural perspective, and your willingness to help others grow.
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Qualifications
essentielles
- Plus de 10 ans d'expérience professionnelle en développement logiciel;
- Expérience dans un rôle technique senior, par exemple Lead, Staff, Principal, Technical Lead ou équivalent;
- Solide expérience pratique en développement logiciel et en conception de systèmes;
- Expérience dans la conception d'applications évolutives, d'API, de systèmes distribués ou de flux de données complexes;
- Expérience professionnelle avec C#/.NET et Angular/TypeScript, ou des technologies étroitement liées;
- Expérience avec des applications infonuagiques, distribuées ou fonctionnant en temps réel;
- Expérience pratique de l'application de l'intelligence artificielle ou de l'IA générative au développement logiciel, aux méthodes de travail en ingénierie ou aux produits;
- Capacité à naviguer entre l'implémentation technique détaillée, l'architecture et les discussions plus larges liées au produit;
- Solides aptitudes en résolution de problèmes, en communication et en collaboration;
- Capacité à travailler efficacement dans un environnement dynamique où les échéances peuvent être exigeantes;
- Approche axée sur la pratique : il ne s'agit pas d'un rôle exclusivement axé sur la gestion.
Atouts
Une expérience dans un ou plusieurs des domaines suivants constitue un atout :
- Développement assisté par l'IA, modernisation logicielle ou accompagnement des développeurs dans l'adoption de nouvelles pratiques;
- Applications utilisant les grands modèles de langage, les agents, l'appel d'outils, le RAG, les embeddings, la recherche vectorielle ou l'orchestration de flux de travail;
- Systèmes d'IA en production, notamment en ce qui concerne la fiabilité, la latence, les coûts, la sécurité, la confidentialité, l'observabilité et l'évaluation;
- Visualisation de données avancée avec des technologies telles que D3.js, Highcharts, ECharts, Plotly, Three.js, Canvas, SVG, WebGL ou WebGPU;
- Visualisation géospatiale, cartographie, tableaux de bord ou applications interactives riches en données;
- Technologies de données en temps réel telles que Kafka, WebSockets, les systèmes de messagerie ou les architectures orientées événements;
- Bases de données SQL et NoSQL, traitement de grands volumes de données ou transformation de données distribuées;
- Docker, Git, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS ou GCP;
- Python, FastAPI ou autres technologies liées aux applications d'IA et de données;
- Expérience dans des environnements de diffusion en direct, des médias, de la finance, du sport ou d'autres contextes où les données sont critiques;
- Connaissance du français.
Le profil recherché
Vous êtes à l'aise de naviguer entre le code, les composants, les systèmes, l'architecture et le produit.
Vous pouvez intervenir directement dans un service .NET pour résoudre un problème en production, collaborer avec le Lead Solutions Architect sur une approche technique, travailler avec le Products Integrative Director à l'exploration de nouvelles capacités et contribuer à transformer une idée ou un prototype en solution fiable pour la production.
Vous demeurez curieux et à jour sur le plan technique. Vous êtes prêt à expérimenter, à remettre certaines idées en question de façon constructive et à introduire de l'innovation sans compromettre la qualité.
Vous êtes également motivé par le développement des autres : partager vos connaissances, accompagner les développeurs et aider les équipes à adopter de meilleurs outils et de meilleures pratiques.
Les années d'expérience, à elles seules, ne définissent pas la réussite dans ce rôle. Nous recherchons une personne qui possède un solide jugement technique, une créativité pratique et le désir de faire progresser à la fois la technologie et l'équipe.
Parcours et expériences recherchés
Nous sommes ouverts à des candidats provenant de différents parcours professionnels, notamment :
- Lead Software Engineer
- Staff Software Engineer ou Principal Software Engineer
- Technical Lead
- Senior Software Architect
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer possédant une expérience en leadership technique
- Engineering Lead ou développeur senior ayant une forte implication technique
Le titre occupé importe moins que la profondeur de votre expertise technique, votre capacité à demeurer impliqué dans le développement, votre vision architecturale et votre volonté de contribuer au développement des autres.
Additional Information
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- Comprehensive Group Insurance – including medical, dental, and online telemedicine support via Dialogue
- RRSP Matching Program – plan for your financial future with company contributions
- Wellness Allowance – support for personal well-being (gym, sports, mental health, etc.)
- Team Activities & Events – regular social and team-building opportunities
- Office in Montreal’s Old Port – a vibrant and inspiring workspace in the heart of downtown (hybrid)
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- Assurances collectives complètes – incluant soins médicaux, dentaires et accès à la télé-médecine via Dialogue
- Programme REER avec contribution de l’entreprise – pour planifier et faire croître votre avenir financier
- Enveloppe bien-être – soutien pour le bien-être personnel (gym, sports, santé mentale, etc.)
- Activités et événements d’entreprise – Moments de convivialité et team-building organisés tout au long de l’année
- Bureau au Vieux-Port de Montréal – un cadre de travail exceptionnel au cœur du centre-ville (poste hybrid)
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