Technical Lead, AI Venture Studio

Location: Toronto, Ontario,,

Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator, and venture studio for B2B SaaS startups across North America. Founded in 2014, we’re on a mission to make the startup journey easier, more accessible, and more successful for early-stage founders. We provide funding, high-touch programming, 1:1 support, investor introductions, and an active SaaS community to support founders through every step of their building journey.

Forum’s AI Studio brings together ambitious people, brilliant ideas, and capital to build the best B2B SaaS businesses in the world, from 0 to 1. We provide founders with access to an experienced operating team, from business design, product design, and engineering to fundraising support. Our model is designed to help Founders move faster, develop better insights, and build companies that have a higher success rate than startups built in any other way.

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced software developer to work with our team of authentic, ambitious, smart, nice people and Founders to build the next generation of great venture-backed startups. You will have the unique opportunity to be a senior individual contributor in early MVP building for new startups, design new business concepts, rapidly prototype innovative software interfaces, and partner with startup CEOs to build B2B software products - end to end. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Partner and build the first versions of product with our Studio venture builders and Founders
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Founders, Design, Engineering, and others to develop products that solve meaningful problems
• Develop clean, scalable, and easily maintained code
• Work with modern languages, frameworks, and tools to build products 
  

What We're Looking For:

• You've shipped non-trivial products that delight users, perhaps some from the ground up, and have spent time dealing with performant or scaling issues as the most senior full-stack developer on a team. 
• Strong professional experience building with a modern tech stack (see what we're using below), but may have also used others.
• Proven technical acumen to make wise choices and take smart risks when dealing with ambiguous requirements under tight deadlines. 
• Bonus points if you've built products with AI or ML-powered capabilities

Tech Stack:

Depending on the company/product, the tech stack may vary. Below are a few things we are looking for:

• JavaScript, TypeScript, Golang, Python
• Node.js (both for web development and microservices)
• Serverless Deployment (using Serverless.com framework and AWS Lambda)
• PySpark, NumPy, Pandas, Scikit, TensorFlow

What We Offer:

• A front-row seat to venture building, we're building world-class B2B SaaS products with incredible founders from the ground up
• The salary range for candidates in Canada is 160,000-180,000 CAD*
• Fund Carry - a direct share in the financial success of the Studio ventures we build together.
• A generous benefits package including a healthcare spending account from day 1.
• Unlimited PTO. We recommend all team members take a minimum of 3 weeks per year on top of our biannual company-wide shutdowns.
• In-person gatherings and team offsites to keep you connected to your colleagues and impact.
• The equipment and resources you'll need to be set up for success working remotely

*Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above

Forum recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status' as required by applicable law.

Forum’s dedication to promoting diversity, multiculturalism, equity and inclusion is more than a commitment - it is the foundation of what we do. And thus we strongly encourage people from ALL backgrounds to apply to this position.