# Software Engineer (Canvas, AI & Agentic Engineering)

**Company**: Instructure
**Location**: Budapest, Central Hungary
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives.

As a Software Engineer II, you will join the team behind Canvas , our high-scale video and media platform that allows millions of instructors and students globally to collaborate, create, and learn through interactive video and audio.

You will be an active driver of our AI SDLC (Agentic Software Development Life Cycle), leveraging cutting-edge agentic workflows, building custom AI skills, and integrating Claude and autonomous developer agents into our daily engineering practices.

**Tech Stack & AI Tooling**

- Frontend: React, TypeScript, Modern JavaScript (ES6+), WebSockets, Video.js

- Backend: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, REST APIs, GraphQL

- Data & Storage: PostgreSQL, Redis

- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, CloudFront, S3, SQS, Lambda, RDS), Docker, Kubernetes

- AI & Agentic Tooling: Claude (Tool Use, Custom Skills, Model Context Protocol), GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted CI/CD workflows

**Responsibilities**

- Build & Scale Canvas: Develop and maintain mission-critical video processing, transcription, accessibility pipelines, and interactive analytics services using TypeScript, React, and Ruby on Rails.

- Pioneer Agentic Engineering (AI SDLC): Build, refine, and deploy custom Claude skills, autonomous development workflows, and tool integrations that automate repetitive engineering tasks, generate synthetic test datasets, and accelerate the PR review cycle.

- Architect Resilient Cloud Services: Utilize AWS primitives (S3, SQS, Lambda, CloudFront, EC2, RDS) to achieve high availability, low latency, and rock-solid uptime for media streaming and transcode queues across millions of global users.

- Intelligent Product Capabilities: Partner with product and UX teams to integrate intelligent, AI-enhanced features into Canvas.

**Requirements**

- 3+ Years of Enterprise Engineering Experience: Proven track record building, testing, and maintaining distributed web applications in production environments.

- Hands-on Agentic Engineering Expertise: Demonstrated experience incorporating Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or LLM agentic toolchains into production engineering workflows.

- Solid TypeScript & JavaScript Proficiency: Deep experience building responsive, accessible, component-driven UIs in modern React.

- Backend Capability (Ruby on Rails): Practical experience with Ruby on Rails, or strong proficiency in another modern MVC/backend framework.

- Database & Cloud Foundations: Strong grasp of relational databases (PostgreSQL query optimization, migrations, indexing) and enterprise cloud deployments on AWS.

- Agile & DevOps Mindset: Working knowledge of Docker, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code principles.

**Benefits**

- Competitive compensation, plus all full-time employees participate in our ownership program.

- Flexible work culture.

- Generous time off, including local holidays and our annual “Dim the Lights” period.

- Comprehensive wellness programs and mental health support.

- Learning and development resources, including professional development tools and tuition reimbursement.

- The technology and tools you need to do your best work.

- Motivosity employee recognition program.

- A culture rooted in inclusivity, support, and meaningful connection.

## Skills

### Required
- React
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Ruby on Rails
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Claude
- GitHub Copilot

### Nice to have
- Direct experience building developer tools
- CLI utilities
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers
- Understanding of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1 AA)

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