GenAI Software Developer

At BMO, we're transforming the future of financial services through Generative AI. We're looking for a passionate and innovative GenAI Software Developer to join our growing team and help design, build, and scale intelligent AI‑powered solutions that enhance employee and customer experiences across the bank.

• Design, develop, test, and deploy AI-powered applications and solutions that address business challenges and improve operational efficiency.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product teams, and technical experts to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Build and optimize Generative AI workflows using prompt engineering, AI orchestration frameworks, RAG capabilities, and intelligent automation.
• Design and develop reusable AI skills, prompts, agents, and workflows that can be leveraged across multiple business use cases and teams.
• Develop high-quality, secure, and maintainable code while adhering to enterprise engineering standards and best practices.
• Collaborate on solution architecture, system integrations, APIs, microservices, and cloud-based deployments.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and tools to identify opportunities for innovation and business value.
• Support continuous improvement through testing, performance optimization, monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from ideation and design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools such as Git Hub Copilot and JIRA Rovo to accelerate delivery and improve developer productivity.
• Contribute to responsible AI practices by ensuring solutions align with security, privacy, governance, and risk management requirements.
• Drive innovation by exploring new use cases and applying generative AI capabilities to transform the way BMO works.

• Translate user needs into technical specifications by understanding, conceptualizing, and facilitating business and technical requirements.
• Analyze, develop, test, and implement software solutions while documenting all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Perform preventative and corrective maintenance, troubleshooting, and issue resolution for applications and supporting systems.
• Ensure code and configurations adhere to security, logging, error handling, performance, and non-functional requirements.
• Evaluate new technologies and assess their impact on systems, processes, data, and risk.
• Follow release management standards and version control practices.
• Assist in interpreting and documenting client and business requirements.
• Work independently on a range of complex tasks and challenges.
• Exercise sound judgment to identify, diagnose, and resolve issues effectively.
• Take measured risks while protecting the bank by applying BMO’s Risk Management Framework and adhering to all applicable policies, standards, laws, and regulatory requirements.
• Broader responsibilities or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

You are a curious technologist who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with a passion for AI and emerging technologies. You thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy learning new tools, and are excited by the opportunity to help shape the future of banking through generative AI.

• 4-6 years of experience in software development, application engineering, or related technical roles.
• Strong programming and software development experience with modern engineering practices and design patterns.
• Experience developing AI-powered applications using Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, vector databases, embeddings, and knowledge retrieval techniques.
• Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and integrating AI solutions with enterprise systems, tools, and data sources.
• Experience designing, consuming, and integrating RESTful APIs, including working with Swagger/OpenAPI specifications.
• Experience leveraging Git Hub Copilot and other AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software…