WHO WE ARE
Welcome to TELUS Digital https://www.telusdigital.com/— where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS https://www.telus.com/en/, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.
With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a Senior AI-First Software Engineer who brings a strong architecture and solution design mindset, combined with hands-on experience leveraging AI-driven development (Vibe Coding) to deliver scalable software solutions. The ideal candidate will have the ability to design systems, interact directly with stakeholders, and use AI as a core enabler to accelerate development and decision-making.
You will play a key role in shaping how modern software is built leveraging AI to move faster, reduce complexity, and deliver high-quality backend solutions.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & ACTIVITIES
1. AI-Driven Software Development
- Lead development using an AI-first approach, leveraging tools such as Copilot, Cline, MCP, and other emerging AI frameworks.
- Apply Vibe Coding practices to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and reduce development cycles.
- Use AI to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies, domains, and platforms.
- Contribute to building and evolving AI-enabled development practices and standards within the team.
2. System Design & Architecture
- AI first for design decisions, prototyping, and system optimization.
- Deep practical knowledge and experience on software architecture and system design best practices and patterns.
- Translate business requirements into end-to-end technical solutions.
- Make architectural decisions that balance speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
3. Backend Engineering & Integrations
- In-depth practice on Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
- Design and implement robust data integrations using SOAP and REST APIs for catalog and order processing flows.
- Write and optimize Complex Queries (SQL/PLSQL) to handle high-volume data processing and reporting.
4. Stakeholder Collaboration & Delivery
- Comfortable engaging and collaborating directly with other CIO engineering teams, product teams, and business stakeholders for requirements gathering, solution design, testing and production support
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Drive alignment between business expectations and technical implementation.
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