Software engineer jobs in Canada

Find software engineer jobs across Canada. Choose a place, compare current openings and read the employer’s requirements.

Counted Nov 3, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 3,377
Employers: 1,194

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $125,049Across 409 listings
Average starting payUSD / year: $160,903Across 118 listings
Average starting payCAD / hour: $63.31Across 98 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 9%320 listings
Hybrid: 41%1,394 listings
On-site: 49%1,642 listings

Not specified: 1% (21 listings)

Employers hiring include Amazon (121), Virtusa (67), Electronic Arts (59).

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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- Full-time
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- $50 CAD / hour
- Contract
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- $150,000 CAD / year
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- Full-time
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Senior Software Engineer - Market Data
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Canada
- Full-time
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Alpaca

Senior Software Engineer - Market Data

Canada

Full-time

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Job details

Job type: Full-time
Experience: At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
Posting language: English
Posted: Apr 30, 2026

Original job description

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!

We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values - Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable - and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.

The market data team is responsible for improving the overall architecture of Alpaca connected to data products such as stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets. Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and is tasked with planning, ideating, experimenting, and putting into production the new services, and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly.

We are looking for senior or staff engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.

Things You Get To Do:

Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems
Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems
Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts)
Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matters
Maintain good software quality and test coverage
Participate in code reviews
Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
Experience with at least compiled imperative languages (e.g. Go, C, C++, Rust, etc.). Most of our critical services are written in Go
SQL or relational database skills
Familiarity with TCP/IP, and UDP networking
Proficient with Linux/BSD, and shell scripting
Excited about what we are building at Alpaca
Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (we primarily use Kubernetes via GKE)
Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
A passion for financial markets

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

Knowledge of microservice architectures
Knowledge of clean code principles
DevOps mindset is an asset
Cloud Networking experience (BGP, VPC peering)
Experience in building low-latency applications
Experience with distributed key-value stores
Experience with CI/CD
A passion for financial markets or the desire to learn
Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling
Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking
Knowledge of eBPF

How We Take Care of You:

Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Health Benefits
New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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Responsibilities

Design, build, and scale resilient, low-latency market data systems and backend services, influencing the architecture of Alpaca’s data products and public APIs. Maintain software quality through testing and code reviews, and troubleshoot incidents and bugs, with possible on-call support for time-sensitive projects.

Requirements

Requires at least four years of experience working on systems at scale, proficiency in a compiled imperative language, SQL or relational databases, networking, Linux/BSD, and shell scripting. Candidates should also have experience leading multi-team projects, using Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems and major cloud platforms, and an interest in financial markets.

Skills

Go
C
C++
Rust
SQL
TCP/IP
UDP Networking
Linux/BSD
Shell Scripting
Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform
System Architecture
Low-Latency Systems
Distributed Systems
Cloud Networking
Observability

Benefits

Stock Options
Health Benefits
Home-Office Setup Stipend
Monthly Stipend

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Keywords

Market Data
Financial Services
Stocks
Options
Cryptocurrency
Foreign Exchange
Public APIs
Streaming APIs
Historical Data
Go
C
C++
Rust
SQL
TCP/IP
UDP
Linux
BSD
Shell Scripting
Kubernetes
Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Cloud Platform
Microservices
Cloud Networking
BGP
VPC Peering
Distributed Key-Value Stores
CI/CD
Observability
eBPF

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