Associate or Vice President Full Stack Engineer

11/29/2026

Address:

100 King Street WestCapital Mrkts Sales & Service

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service financial services provider. We offer corporate and investment banking, treasury management, as well as research and advisory services to clients around the world. #bmocapitalmarkets

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on Full Stack Engineer to join the Data Cognition Team at BMO Capital Markets. You will build and ship AI-enabled products used across Investment & Corporate Banking and Global Markets. The role combines strong software engineering, applied AI experience and end-to-end ownership of secure, reliable applications at enterprise scale.

Our Team

The Data Cognition Team builds reusable AI and user-centric products that solve high-value business problems across BMO Capital Markets. We work in small, delivery-focused teams and partner closely with colleagues across business, product, user experience, data, risk and technology to move solutions from idea to production.

 Key Responsibilities

- Design, build and ship full stack applications for Investment & Corporate Banking and Global Markets, owning them end to end from technical design through testing, deployment, monitoring and ongoing improvement.

- Apply practical knowledge of generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation and agentic workflows to build production-ready, AI-enabled features into our applications.

- Build secure APIs, MCP servers and services that integrate our applications with enterprise systems and data.

- Work closely with our User Experience team to turn user needs into simple, intuitive and polished experiences.

- Partner with business stakeholders, product, data science, risk and technology teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

- Write clean, maintainable code supported by automated tests, code reviews and CI/CD, using AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve speed and quality.

- Build for reliability, security and scale through strong observability, performance management and production support.

- Contribute to architecture decisions, engineering standards, reusable components and best practices for applying AI across the team.

Must Have

- 3+ years (Associate) or 6+ years (Vice President) of professional software engineering experience, with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

- Strong software engineering experience with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, building modern web applications with frameworks such as React and backend services using FastAPI or Flask.

- Hands-on experience building AI-enabled applications, including the use of large language models, model APIs, MCP servers and agents.

- Experience designing APIs, microservices and scalable applications, working with SQL and NoSQL databases, data pipelines and real-time or messaging systems such as WebSockets, Redis or message queues.

- Strong understanding of containerization with Docker, automated testing, CI/CD, application security, observability and production operations.

- Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous problems from concept to production iteratively, with clear communication across technical, business and control teams.

Nice to Have

- Experience taking AI-enabled applications into production, including monitoring, evaluating and improving them with real users.

- Experience designing application-level authentication and permissioning, including token-based access and role-based entitlements across multiple services.

- Experience with vector databases, embeddings and retrieval techniques that improve the quality of AI responses.

- Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS, and to container orchestration such as Kubernetes.

- Knowledge of financial markets and Investment & Corporate Banking workflows.

What We Offer

Join BMO Capital Markets to build AI-enabled products that solve meaningful business problems at enterprise scale. You will work with modern technology, experienced colleagues and business partners to ship solutions that improve how our teams serve clients and operate. You will work across the full stack and collaborate with specialist teams throughout the organization, often contributing to the shared platforms and infrastructure our applications are built on.

Please note the base salary for this role at the Associate level is $120,000 CAD / at the Vice President level is $160,000 CAD.

(subject to negotiation and subject to the candidate meeting the specific skills, experience, education, and qualification requirements)

Salaried

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

About Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en.

BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

Note to Recruiters: BMO does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to BMO, directly or indirectly, will be considered BMO property. BMO will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. A recruiting agency must first have a valid, written and fully executed agency agreement contract for service to submit resumes.