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Software Engineer – AI-Assisted Development

  • Montreal, QC, Canada

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Position Description

Senior

  • Develops and modernizes applications with the support of AI coding agents

About Our Practice

At CGI in Montréal, our Cloud and Artificial Intelligence practice is experiencing strong growth. We support large enterprises and organizations across industries and sectors in their digital transformation, cloud modernization and generative AI initiatives. By joining our team, you will help design innovative, secure and scalable solutions tailored to our clients’ complex challenges.

Your future duties and responsibilities

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, modernize and maintain complex applications aligned with clients’ business needs, in accordance with the direction and standards set by the solution architect.
  • Analyze existing, legacy or poorly documented applications and code repositories to understand their functionality, dependencies and constraints, and propose an approach for their evolution.
  • Use AI coding assistants and agents to accelerate analysis, documentation, development, refactoring and test creation, while ensuring that results are validated.
  • Carry out progressive modernization activities: reduce technical debt, upgrade components, evolve interfaces and improve maintainability while preserving expected functional behaviour.
  • Create and maintain repository-specific instructions, agent guidance and the context needed for teams to use AI consistently and reproducibly.
  • Define reusable AI-assisted development workflows, including task breakdown, context preparation, validation steps and human review.
  • Develop and maintain automated tests, including characterization tests for existing code, unit tests, integration tests and regression tests.
  • Integrate AI-assisted development practices into pull requests, code reviews and CI/CD pipelines, using verifiable quality and security criteria.
  • Verify the quality, security and suitability of code proposed by agents; apply rules for protecting source code, secrets and data when using AI tools.
  • Collaborate with architecture, quality, security and operations teams; document solutions, mentor developers and share proven practices.

Required Qualifications

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

  • At least 5 years of software development experience, with a track record demonstrating the ability to evolve and maintain complex applications.
  • Excellent command of at least one development language or environment among C#/.NET, Java, Python or JavaScript/TypeScript, including Node.js, and the ability to work across diverse technology environments.
  • Demonstrable hands-on experience using at least one AI coding assistant or agent, such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, Claude Code or Cursor, for real development tasks.
  • Strong skills in existing-code analysis, debugging, refactoring and progressive application modernization.
  • Proficiency in software design principles, APIs, automated testing and practices that promote code readability, maintainability and reliability.
  • Proficiency in Git, pull requests, code reviews, and continuous integration and delivery practices.
  • Ability to write precise instructions for agents, select relevant context and verify their proposals through analysis, tests and code review.
  • Knowledge of secure development practices and the limitations of AI tools, including logic errors, introduced vulnerabilities and risks of data disclosure.
  • Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, explain technical choices and support the adoption of new practices.
  • Bilingual in French and English.

Assets

  • Experience modernizing legacy or poorly documented applications, including implementing characterization tests and gradually migrating components.
  • Experience creating repository instructions, reusable commands or workflows that govern the use of coding agents across a team.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, containers and automated code quality and security analysis tools.
  • Experience measuring the benefits and limitations of AI-assisted development: delivery time, review effort, defects and maintainability.
  • Experience delivering solutions in regulated environments or environments with stringent security and confidentiality requirements.

Compensation and position status

CGI provides a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role 80 000$ - 155 000$, taking into account factors such as skill set, geographic market, experience, training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each candidate.

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

To learn more about accessibility at CGI, contact us via email. Please note that this email is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used for application status inquiries.

Come join our team - one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

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Position Description

Senior

  • Develops and modernizes applications with the support of AI coding agents

About Our Practice

At CGI in Montréal, our Cloud and Artificial Intelligence practice is experiencing strong growth. We support large enterprises and organizations across industries and sectors in their digital transformation, cloud modernization and generative AI initiatives. By joining our team, you will help design innovative, secure and scalable solutions tailored to our clients’ complex challenges.

Your future duties and responsibilities

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, modernize and maintain complex applications aligned with clients’ business needs, in accordance with the direction and standards set by the solution architect.
  • Analyze existing, legacy or poorly documented applications and code repositories to understand their functionality, dependencies and constraints, and propose an approach for their evolution.
  • Use AI coding assistants and agents to accelerate analysis, documentation, development, refactoring and test creation, while ensuring that results are validated.
  • Carry out progressive modernization activities: reduce technical debt, upgrade components, evolve interfaces and improve maintainability while preserving expected functional behaviour.
  • Create and maintain repository-specific instructions, agent guidance and the context needed for teams to use AI consistently and reproducibly.
  • Define reusable AI-assisted development workflows, including task breakdown, context preparation, validation steps and human review.
  • Develop and maintain automated tests, including characterization tests for existing code, unit tests, integration tests and regression tests.
  • Integrate AI-assisted development practices into pull requests, code reviews and CI/CD pipelines, using verifiable quality and security criteria.
  • Verify the quality, security and suitability of code proposed by agents; apply rules for protecting source code, secrets and data when using AI tools.
  • Collaborate with architecture, quality, security and operations teams; document solutions, mentor developers and share proven practices.

Required Qualifications

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

  • At least 5 years of software development experience, with a track record demonstrating the ability to evolve and maintain complex applications.
  • Excellent command of at least one development language or environment among C#/.NET, Java, Python or JavaScript/TypeScript, including Node.js, and the ability to work across diverse technology environments.
  • Demonstrable hands-on experience using at least one AI coding assistant or agent, such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, Claude Code or Cursor, for real development tasks.
  • Strong skills in existing-code analysis, debugging, refactoring and progressive application modernization.
  • Proficiency in software design principles, APIs, automated testing and practices that promote code readability, maintainability and reliability.
  • Proficiency in Git, pull requests, code reviews, and continuous integration and delivery practices.
  • Ability to write precise instructions for agents, select relevant context and verify their proposals through analysis, tests and code review.
  • Knowledge of secure development practices and the limitations of AI tools, including logic errors, introduced vulnerabilities and risks of data disclosure.
  • Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, explain technical choices and support the adoption of new practices.
  • Bilingual in French and English.

Assets

  • Experience modernizing legacy or poorly documented applications, including implementing characterization tests and gradually migrating components.
  • Experience creating repository instructions, reusable commands or workflows that govern the use of coding agents across a team.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, containers and automated code quality and security analysis tools.
  • Experience measuring the benefits and limitations of AI-assisted development: delivery time, review effort, defects and maintainability.
  • Experience delivering solutions in regulated environments or environments with stringent security and confidentiality requirements.

Compensation and position status

CGI provides a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role 80 000$ - 155 000$, taking into account factors such as skill set, geographic market, experience, training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each candidate.

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

To learn more about accessibility at CGI, contact us via email. Please note that this email is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used for application status inquiries.

Come join our team - one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

Ingénieur(e) logiciel – développement assisté par l’IA

Job Description

Senior

  • Développe et modernise des applications avec l’appui d’agents de code IA

À propos de notre pratique

Au sein de CGI à Montréal, notre pratique Cloud et intelligence artificielle est en pleine croissance. Nous accompagnons de grandes entreprises et organisations issues de l’ensemble des industries et des secteurs d’activité dans leurs initiatives de transformation numérique, de modernisation infonuagique et d’adoption de l’IA générative. En rejoignant notre équipe, vous contribuerez à concevoir des solutions innovantes, sécurisées et évolutives, adaptées aux défis complexes de nos clients.

Your future duties and responsibilities

Responsabilités

  • Concevoir, développer, moderniser et maintenir des applications complexes alignées sur les besoins d’affaires des clients, dans le respect des orientations et des standards définis par l’architecte de solution.
  • Analyser des applications et des dépôts de code existants, anciens ou peu documentés afin de comprendre leur fonctionnement, leurs dépendances et leurs contraintes, et de proposer une démarche d’évolution.
  • Utiliser les assistants et agents de code IA pour accélérer l’analyse, la documentation, le développement, la refactorisation et la création de tests, tout en assurant la validation des résultats.
  • Réaliser des travaux de modernisation progressive : réduction de la dette technique, mise à niveau des composants, évolution des interfaces et amélioration de la maintenabilité, en préservant les comportements fonctionnels attendus.
  • Créer et maintenir les instructions propres aux dépôts, les consignes destinées aux agents et les contextes nécessaires à une utilisation cohérente et reproductible de l’IA par les équipes.
  • Définir des méthodes de travail réutilisables pour le développement assisté par l’IA, incluant le découpage des tâches, la préparation du contexte, les étapes de validation et la revue humaine.
  • Développer et maintenir les tests automatisés, notamment les tests de caractérisation du code existant, les tests unitaires, les tests d’intégration et les tests de non-régression.
  • Intégrer les pratiques de développement assisté par l’IA aux demandes de fusion, aux revues de code et aux pipelines CI/CD, en s’appuyant sur des critères de qualité et de sécurité vérifiables.
  • Vérifier la qualité, la sécurité et la pertinence du code proposé par les agents ; appliquer les règles de protection du code source, des secrets et des données lors de l’utilisation des outils IA.
  • Collaborer avec les équipes d’architecture, de qualité, de sécurité et d’exploitation ; documenter les solutions, accompagner les développeurs et partager les pratiques éprouvées.

Qualifications Requises

  • Minimum de 5 ans d’expérience en développement logiciel, avec des réalisations démontrant une capacité à faire évoluer et à maintenir des applications complexes.
  • Excellente maîtrise d’au moins un langage ou environnement de développement parmi C#/.NET, Java, Python ou JavaScript/TypeScript, notamment Node.js, et capacité à intervenir dans des environnements technologiques variés.
  • Expérience pratique démontrable d’au moins un assistant ou agent de code IA, comme GitHub Copilot, Codex, Claude Code ou Cursor, appliqué à des tâches réelles de développement.
  • Solides compétences en analyse de code existant, en débogage, en refactorisation et en modernisation progressive d’applications.
  • Maîtrise des principes de conception logicielle, des API, des tests automatisés et des pratiques favorisant la lisibilité, la maintenabilité et la fiabilité du code.
  • Maîtrise de Git, des demandes de fusion, des revues de code et des pratiques d’intégration et de livraison continues.
  • Capacité à formuler des consignes précises pour les agents, à sélectionner le contexte utile et à vérifier leurs propositions par l’analyse, les tests et la revue de code.
  • Connaissance des pratiques de développement sécurisé et des limites des outils IA, notamment les erreurs de logique, les vulnérabilités introduites et les risques de divulgation de données.
  • Capacité à collaborer avec des interlocuteurs techniques et non techniques, à expliquer ses choix et à accompagner l’adoption de nouvelles pratiques.
  • Bilinguisme français et anglais.

Atouts

  • Expérience de modernisation d’applications patrimoniales ou peu documentées, incluant la mise en place de tests de caractérisation et la migration progressive de composants.
  • Expérience de création d’instructions de dépôt, de commandes réutilisables ou de flux de travail permettant d’encadrer l’utilisation des agents de code à l’échelle d’une équipe.
  • Expérience des plateformes infonuagiques, des conteneurs et des outils d’analyse automatisée de la qualité et de la sécurité du code.
  • Expérience de mesure des gains et des limites du développement assisté par l’IA : temps de réalisation, effort de revue, défauts et maintenabilité.
  • Expérience de livraison en environnement réglementé ou soumis à des exigences élevées de sécurité et de confidentialité.

Rémunération et statut du poste

CGI fournit une estimation raisonnable de la fourchette salariale de ce poste 80 000$ - 155 000$ en tenant compte notamment des compétences, du marché géographique, de l’expérience, de la formation, ainsi que des licences et certifications. La rémunération dépend des qualifications et des circonstances propres à chaque candidature. Ce poste est vacant

Ensemble, en tant que propriétaires, mettons notre savoir-faire à l’œuvre.

La vie chez CGI est ancrée dans l’actionnariat, le travail d’équipe, le respect et un sentiment d’appartenance. Chez nous, vous pourrez exploiter votre plein potentiel parce que…

Nous vous invitons à devenir propriétaire dès le jour 1 alors que nous travaillons ensemble à faire de notre rêve une réalité. C’est pourquoi nous nous désignons comme associés de CGI, plutôt que comme employés. Nous tirons profit des retombées de notre succès collectif et contribuons activement à l’orientation et à la stratégie de notre entreprise.

Votre travail crée de la valeur. Vous élaborerez des solutions novatrices et développerez des relations durables avec vos collègues et clients, tout en ayant accès à des capacités mondiales pour concrétiser vos idées, saisir de nouvelles opportunités, et bénéficier d’une expertise sectorielle et technologique de pointe.

Vous ferez évoluer votre carrière en vous joignant à une entreprise bâtie pour croître et durer. Vous serez soutenus par des leaders qui ont votre santé et bien-être à cœur et qui vous permettront de saisir des occasions afin de parfaire vos compétences et élargir les horizons.

Chez CGI, nous valorisons la richesse que la diversité apporte et nous nous engageons à favoriser un environnement de travail où chacun s’épanouit. Nous collaborons avec nos clients pour bâtir des communautés plus inclusives et permettre à tous les associés de CGI de réussir. En tant qu’employeur prônant l’égalité des chances, il est important pour nous que vous puissiez donner le meilleur de vous-même durant le processus de recrutement. Si vous avez besoin d’un accommodement particulier, veuillez en informer votre recruteur.

Ce même engagement envers l’équité s’étend à notre utilisation des technologies. Afin de soutenir notre équipe de recrutement, des outils d’IA peuvent être utilisés pour aider à l’évaluation des candidatures, sans jamais remplacer le jugement humain. Toutes les décisions d’embauche demeurent entièrement entre les mains de nos professionnels du recrutement.

Pour en savoir plus sur l'accessibilité chez CGI, contactez-nous par courriel. Veuillez noter que ce courriel est strictement réservé aux demandes d'accessibilité et ne peut être utilisé pour vérifier l'état d’une candidature.

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Responsibilities

Design, develop, maintain, and progressively modernize complex applications, using AI coding assistants to support analysis, documentation, development, refactoring, and test creation. Establish reusable AI-assisted workflows and repository guidance, validate agent-generated code for quality and security, and collaborate with architecture, quality, security, and operations teams.

Requirements

Requires at least five years of software development experience and strong skills in at least one of C#/.NET, Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript, along with hands-on experience using an AI coding assistant or agent. Candidates should be proficient in application modernization, software design, automated testing, Git and CI/CD, secure development, and communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders; French and English bilingualism is required.

Skills

  • Software Development
  • AI Coding Assistants
  • Application Modernization
  • Legacy Code Analysis
  • Debugging
  • Refactoring
  • C#/.NET
  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Automated Testing
  • Git
  • CI/CD
  • Secure Development
  • API Design

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Categories

  • Software
  • Technology
  • Consulting

Keywords

  • AI-Assisted Development
  • AI Coding Agents
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Codex
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • C#/.NET
  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Legacy Application Modernization
  • Technical Debt
  • Characterization Testing
  • Unit Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • Git
  • Pull Requests
  • Code Reviews
  • CI/CD
  • Secure Development
  • APIs
  • Cloud Platforms
  • Containers
  • Code Quality Analysis
  • Security Analysis
  • Repository Instructions
  • Generative AI
  • Bilingual French and English

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