Software development jobs in Canada

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Counted Oct 28, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 6,227
Employers: 1,928

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $113,649Across 656 listings
Average starting payCAD / hour: $56.37Across 223 listings
Average starting payUSD / year: $146,049Across 129 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $59.97Across 19 listings
Average starting payCAD / month: $6,118Across 11 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 8%482 listings
Hybrid: 39%2,437 listings
On-site: 53%3,281 listings

Not specified: <1% (27 listings)

Employers hiring include S M Software Solutions Inc (248), Amazon (137), Electronic Arts (71).

Sources & calculation notes

These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

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Actalent

Software Developer

Toronto, ON, Canada

$24 to $33 CAD / hour · Contract

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Job details

Pay: $24 to $33 CAD / hour
Job type: Contract
Apply by: Nov 27, 2026
Experience: Minimum of 2 years of hands-on development experience.
Posting language: English · French
Posted: Oct 28, 2026

Original job description

English section of this bilingual listing.

Job Title: Software Developer

Job Description

As a Software Developer, you will lead the design and delivery of software services and website stacks that involve engaging creatives, cross-screen placements, targeting, optimization, relevancy, and advertiser experiences. You will build brand new distributed software applications using cloud services and proprietary technologies to deliver unique customer and advertiser experiences. Additionally, you will drive AI-powered innovations through our intelligent recommendation engine, which surfaces high-converting advertising opportunities for book publishers and orchestrates ad request routing, signal enrichment, and real-time decisioning across multiple demand sources and reader surfaces.

Responsibilities

Interface with teams including discovery, retail category, traffic generation, vendor management, and analytics.
Experiment, innovate, and deliver in a fast, agile, and reliable manner with high quality and low technical debt.
Champion the product with a strong sense of ownership, showing passion for building and improving systems at scale.

Essential Skills

Proficiency in Java and SQL.
Experience with AI tools.
Exposure to AWS, as a significant amount of work will be done here.
Minimum of 2 years of hands-on development experience.
Capability to understand complex architecture.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

A degree in computer science is preferred but not mandatory; hands-on programming experience is prioritized.
Experience in the Ads industry or ecosystem, specifically DSP Ads.
Previous experience as an employee or contractor.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Toronto, ON.

Pay And Benefits

The pay range for this position is $24.00 - $33.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Toronto, ON.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Toronto,ON.

À propos d'Actalent

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI):We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.

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Interface with teams including discovery, retail category, traffic generation, vendor management, and analytics.
Experiment, innovate, and deliver in a fast, agile, and reliable manner with high quality and low technical debt.
Champion the product with a strong sense of ownership, showing passion for building and improving systems at scale.

Essential Skills

Proficiency in Java and SQL.
Experience with AI tools.
Exposure to AWS, as a significant amount of work will be done here.
Minimum of 2 years of hands-on development experience.
Capability to understand complex architecture.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

A degree in computer science is preferred but not mandatory; hands-on programming experience is prioritized.
Experience in the Ads industry or ecosystem, specifically DSP Ads.
Previous experience as an employee or contractor.

Work Environment

The work schedule is Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 5 pm, with a minimum of 4 days in the office, ideally 5 days. You will work in a dynamic environment alongside the Data Science team and engineers, collaborating on designs and upgrading current code to ensure ads are more relevant.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Toronto, ON.

Pay And Benefits

The pay range for this position is $24.00 - $33.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Toronto, ON.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Toronto,ON.

À propos d'Actalent

Actalent est un leader mondial dans les services dingénierie et de sciences ainsi que dans les solutions de talents. Nous aidons des entreprises visionnaires à faire progresser leurs initiatives dingénierie et de science grâce à laccès à des experts spécialisés qui favorisent léchelle, linnovation et la rapidité de mise sur le marché. Avec un réseau de près de 20 000 consultants et 5 000 clients à travers les États-Unis, le Canada, lAsie et lEurope, Actalent dessert de nombreuses entreprises du Fortune 500. Nous sommes fiers dêtre lune des 500 meilleures firmes de conception de lEngineering News-Record (ENR) pour nos services de conception en ingénierie et un lauréat du prix ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® tant pour le service client que pour les talents.

Actalent est un employeur souscrivant au principe de légalité des chances et accepte toutes les candidatures sans tenir compte de la race, du sexe, de lâge, de la couleur, de la religion, des origines nationales, du statut dancien combattant, dun handicap, de lorientation sexuelle, de lidentité sexuelle, des renseignements génétiques ou de toute autre caractéristique protégée par la loi.

Si vous souhaitez faire une demande daccommodement raisonnable, tel que la modification ou lajustement du processus de demande demploi ou dentrevue à cause dun handicap, veuillez envoyer un courriel à actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com pour connaître dautres options daccommodement.

Ordonnance sur légalité des chances de San Francisco: Conformément à lOrdonnance sur légalité des chances de San Francisco, pour tous les postes situés dans la ville et le comté de San Francisco, nous examinerons les candidatures des personnes qualifiées ayant un casier judiciaire ou des antécédents criminels.

Utilisation de lintelligence artificielle (IA): Nous pouvons utiliser lintelligence artificielle (IA) pour soutenir certaines étapes de notre processus dembauche, notamment la recherche, la présélection et lévaluation des candidatures. LIA aide à analyser les candidatures et les qualifications, mais les décisions finales sont prises par notre équipe de recrutement. En soumettant votre candidature, vous reconnaissez et acceptez que celle-ci puisse être examinée à laide doutils dIA.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI):We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.

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Responsibilities

Design and deliver distributed software services and website systems for advertising, including targeting, optimization, recommendation, ad routing, and real-time decisioning. Collaborate with discovery, retail, traffic, vendor management, analytics, and data science teams to improve ad relevance and deliver reliable, high-quality systems.

Requirements

Requires at least two years of hands-on software development experience, proficiency in Java and SQL, familiarity with AI tools, exposure to AWS, and the ability to understand complex architecture. A computer science degree is preferred but not mandatory; experience in the advertising ecosystem, particularly DSP advertising, is an additional qualification.

Skills

Java
SQL
Artificial Intelligence Tools
AWS
Distributed Systems
Software Development
Complex Architecture
Advertising Technology
Demand-Side Platform Advertising
Real-Time Decisioning
Agile Development
System Optimization
Recommendation Engines

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Keywords

Java
SQL
AWS
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed Applications
Cloud Services
Software Services
Website Development
Advertising Technology
Demand-Side Platform
Recommendation Engine
Ad Request Routing
Signal Enrichment
Real-Time Decisioning
Targeting
Optimization
Relevancy
Agile Development
System Architecture
Technical Debt
Data Science
Analytics
Advertiser Experiences
Book Publishing
Cross-Screen Placements

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