Software engineer jobs in Toronto, ON and nearby (1,610 jobs)

Software engineer jobs within 25 km of Toronto, ON, Canada. Nearby towns and cities are included. Distances are straight-line, not driving distances.

Counted Nov 6, 2026

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Open jobs: 1,610
Employers: 548

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $135,108Across 203 listings
Average starting payCAD / hour: $60.15Across 64 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 0%0 listings
Hybrid: 48%780 listings
On-site: 51%817 listings

Not specified: 1% (13 listings)

Employers hiring include Virtusa (62), Amazon (56), Okta (46).

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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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Software engineer jobs in Toronto, ON and nearby

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Software Engineer II (Systems Support)
TD
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Senior Java Software Engineer
Soho Square Solutions
Toronto, ON
- Contract
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Full Stack Software Engineer
Verismo Health
Markham, ON
- Full-time
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Software Development Engineer, AFT Sortation Material Flow
Amazon
Toronto, ON
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Software Engineer (React & TypeScript)
Applicantz
Toronto, ON
- $50 to $55 CAD / hour
- Contract
Hands-on professional experience developing production software with AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) as part of a daily workflow.
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ServiceNow Associate Software Engineer
Sun Life
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Software Engineer IV, Viper Engineering
ACV Auctions
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Software Engineer II
TD
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Software Engineer IV, Viper Engineering
ACV
Toronto, ON
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Software Engineer - Strong Java, Python and Linux experience
Smart IT Frame LLC
Toronto, ON
- Contract
Job Title: Software Engineer - Strong Java, Python and Linux experience
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Senior Software Engineer
Gigafest Consulting
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Gigafest is hiring a Senior Software Developer.
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Senior Platform Software Engineer – Frontend
DSI Recruiting
Toronto, ON
- $135,000 to $160,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
Our client is seeking a hands-on Senior Platform Software Engineer (Frontend) to build the shared web foundation for a next-generation enterprise application platform. The role develops the…
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Senior Platform Software Engineer – Backend
DSI Recruiting
Toronto, ON
- $130,000 to $160,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
Our client is seeking a hands-on Senior Platform Software Engineer (Backend) to implement shared cloud-native services and reusable .NET SDKs for a next-generation enterprise application…
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Software Engineer (React & TypeScript)
Applicantz
Toronto, ON
- $50 to $55 CAD / hour
- Contract
Hands-on professional experience developing production software with AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) as part of a daily workflow.
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Senior Software Engineer - Java/React
PointClickCare
Mississauga, ON
- Full-time
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Principal Software Engineer
PointClickCare
Mississauga, ON
- Full-time
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Software Engineer - Marketing
RedBranch Executive Search & Recruitment
Toronto, ON
- $100,000 to $140,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
Our client is an exciting AI technology startup and they are searching for a Software Engineer with strong marketing knowledge. This position will own the system architecture and technical…
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Software Engineer
Applicantz
Toronto, ON
- $50 to $55 CAD / hour
- Contract
Hands-on professional experience developing production software with AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) as part of a daily workflow.
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Principal Software Engineer
PointClickCare
Mississauga, ON
- $142,700 to $178,400 CAD / year
- Full-time
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Senior Software Engineer - Java/React
PointClickCare
Mississauga, ON
- $130,100 to $162,600 CAD / year
- Full-time
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Senior Software Engineer-C#
Morningstar
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Morningstar is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design, build, and maintain scalable enterprise applications and APIs. The role focuses on backend development using C#, .NET,…
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Frontend Software Engineer – React/TypeScript
Applicantz
Toronto, ON
- $50 to $55 CAD / hour
- Contract
Hands-on professional experience developing production software with AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) as part of a daily workflow.
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Software Engineer, Backend
Lyft
Toronto, ON
…The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team is seeking a backend Software Engineer to help build and operate our platform, which supports real-time, online, and offline ML model…
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Senior Software Engineer-C#
Morningstar
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Morningstar is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design, build, and maintain scalable enterprise applications and APIs. The role focuses on backend development using C#, .NET,…
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Staff Software Engineer, Messaging Experience
Braze
Toronto, ON

ACV Auctions

Software Engineer IV, Viper Engineering

Toronto, ON, Canada

Full-time

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Job details

Job type: Full-time
Apply by: Dec 4, 2026
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 4, 2026

Original job description

If you are looking for a career at a dynamic company with a people-first mindset and a deep culture of growth and autonomy, ACV is the right place for you! Competitive compensation packages and learning and development opportunities, ACV has what you need to advance to the next level in your career. We will continue to raise the bar every day by investing in our people and technology to help our customers succeed. We hire people who share our passion, bring innovative ideas to the table, and enjoy a collaborative atmosphere.

Who we are:

ACV is a technology company that has revolutionized how dealers buy and sell cars online. We are transforming the automotive industry. ACV Auctions Inc. (ACV), has applied innovation and user-designed, data driven applications and solutions. We are building the most trusted and efficient digital marketplace with data solutions for sourcing, selling and managing used vehicles with transparency and comprehensive insights that were once unimaginable. We are disruptors of the industry and we want you to join us on our journey.

At ACV we focus on the Health, Physical, Financial, Social and Emotional Wellness of our Teammates and to support this we offer:

Company Sponsored (paid) Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Life/AD&D, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability.
Comprehensive additional optional benefits such Critical Illness and Supplemental Life/AD&D.
All insurance benefits go into effect on your date of hire.
Generous Parental Leave Top-Up Pay and Vacation Programs.
Employee Stock Purchase Program with additional opportunities to earn stock in the company.
Retirement planning through the Company’s RRSP.

Who we are looking for:

ACV Auctions is looking for a Software Engineer to join our ACV Retail - Viper Teams and work on our SaaS Product. The position will focus on backend development & maintenance of Go Lang features & services hosted in AWS and utilizing Postgres and NOSQL.

The ideal candidate has a strong background and proven track record of architecting and designing enterprise applications in Go Lang and Node.JS, a penchant for high quality code, and a team minded approach to development.

What you will do:

Develop Services using modern language stacks like Go Lang , Postgres and NoSQL databases like mongo, SQL Server is nice to have.
Design and build complex systems that can scale rapidly with little maintenance, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
Design, build, and maintain Kafka-based event processing services, including consuming, deserializing, validating, persisting, and reacting to events to drive downstream workflows.
Design and implement effective service/product interfaces, including third-party API integrations and extensible handler patterns for new integrations.
Develop and maintain application data models, including writing and tuning complex SQL queries, optimizing indexes and performance, and designing schemas that reliably support application workflows
Own larger, complex initiatives end-to-end - from discovery and requirements through delivery and production support - driving alignment across engineering and business stakeholders.
Collaborate with software and production engineers to design scalable services, plan feature roll-out, and ensure high reliability and performance of our products.
Design and develop systems across all major departments including but not limited to; data, enterprise applications, and IT.
Lead technical design and architecture decisions across multiple systems/services, and help establish standards, patterns, and best practices.
Modify and develop custom software patterns as needed to solve highly complex software problems, and clearly document tradeoffs and long-term maintenance implications.
Be accountable for the overall performance of products and/or services within a defined area of focus, including diagnosing production issues and driving improvements.
Conduct code reviews, develop high-quality documentation, and build robust test suites for your products (unit/integration testing), ensuring maintainable and well-covered code.
Provide technical leadership through mentoring, coaching, and strong design/code review feedback, helping raise overall engineering quality.
Develop roadmaps and prioritize technical debt to effectively plan features and work, balancing delivery with long-term platform health.
Drive operational maturity (observability, incident response, on-call practices, reliability goals) and lead post-incident analysis with preventative action plans.
Handle multiple competing priorities in an agile, fast-paced environment while maintaining strong engineering discipline and delivery quality.
Perform additional duties as assigned.

What you will need:

Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience preferred
Minimum 8 years of experience building SaaS web applications using Go Lang and Node.JS and/or C# nice to have (12+ years desirable).
Strong experience maintaining and extending an existing codebase, adapting to pre-existing patterns and tracing the code’s path of execution across services.
Strong experience integrating 3rd-party APIs, implementing authentication & authorization and developing asynchronous data flows.
Strong experience publishing and consuming Kafka events, including designing event contracts, building reliable event-driven workflows, and handling ordering, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
Strong experience developing unit and integration-tests, and setting expectations for test strategy and coverage.
Strong experience integrating with cloud service (AWS), specifically: SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, ElasticSearch, Docker / Containers.
Strong experience working with Docker and Kubernetes, including containerization, orchestration (k8s) and serverless deployment scenarios.
Strong experience with build & deployment automation (CI/CD) and release workflows.
Strong SQL programming and data-layer development experience (schema design, query performance, indexing, and data reliability patterns).
Minimum 8 years of experience working with continuous integration and build tools.
Expert in version control systems and branching/release strategies.
Expert in software engineering tooling and mentors and drives adoption for new tools and tooling standards.
Expert in release, builds, testing and the entirety of the SDLC.
Expert at debugging distributed systems using distributed tracing and other common tools; able to lead root-cause analysis and preventative improvements.
Top notch communication skills, including clearly communicating tradeoffs and aligning stakeholders.
Experience architecting and designing systems from the ground up, including making pragmatic decisions for scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Experience working with a geographically dispersed team across multiple timezones, including leading technical alignment and delivery across teams.

Our Values

Trust & Transparency | People First | Positive Experiences | Calm Persistence | Never Settling

At ACV, we are committed to an inclusive culture in which every individual is welcomed and empowered to celebrate their true selves. We achieve this by fostering a work environment of acceptance and understanding that is free from discrimination. ACV is committed to being an equal opportunity employer regardless of sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires reasonable accommodation, please let us know.

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No immigration or work visa sponsorship provided for this position.

Compensation: The compensation range for this position is listed in the "Job Details" section at the bottom of this posting. Please note that final compensation will be determined based upon the applicant's relevant experience, skillset, location, business needs, market demands, and other factors as permitted by law.

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Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and event-driven workflows using Go, Kafka, AWS, and relational and NoSQL databases, while owning complex initiatives from discovery through production support. Lead architecture and technical standards, improve reliability and operational maturity, and support engineering quality through testing, code reviews, documentation, mentoring, and roadmap planning.

Requirements

The role seeks at least 8 years of SaaS application development experience, with strong expertise in Go and Node.js, distributed systems, Kafka, AWS, SQL, containers, CI/CD, and testing. A computer science or related bachelor's degree is preferred, or equivalent practical experience; candidates should also demonstrate technical leadership, system design, communication, and experience coordinating across distributed teams.

Skills

Go
Node.js
AWS
PostgreSQL
NoSQL
Kafka
SQL
Docker
Kubernetes
Microservices Architecture
API Integration
Event-Driven Systems
CI/CD
Distributed Systems Debugging
System Design
Technical Leadership

Benefits

Company-Sponsored Healthcare
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life and AD&D Insurance
Short-Term Disability Insurance
Long-Term Disability Insurance
Critical Illness Insurance
Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
Parental Leave Top-Up Pay
Vacation
Employee Stock Purchase Program
Company Stock Opportunities
Retirement Planning Through RRSP

Visa sponsorship

Not detected in the job text

Keywords

Go
Node.js
C#
AWS
PostgreSQL
NoSQL
MongoDB
SQL Server
Kafka
SQS
SNS
S3
ECS
EKS
Lambda
Elasticsearch
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
SaaS
Event-Driven Architecture
Third-Party API Integration
Authentication and Authorization
Schema Design
Query Optimization
Distributed Tracing
Unit Testing
Integration Testing
Agile
Automotive Digital Marketplace

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