Software development jobs in Canada

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Counted Sep 22, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 4,112
Employers: 1,532

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $116,159Across 449 listings
Average starting payUSD / year: $140,203Across 120 listings
Average starting payCAD / hour: $55.76Across 73 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 10%411 listings
Hybrid: 40%1,653 listings
On-site: 49%2,007 listings

Not specified: 1% (41 listings)

Employers hiring include Amazon (117), Genetec (63), RBC (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

Software development jobs in Canada

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Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
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Montreal, QC
$70,000 to $110,000 CAD / year
Full-time
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Ottawa, ON
Full-time
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IBM
Ottawa, ON
$72,800 to $109,200 CAD / year
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IBM
Ottawa, ON
$72,800 to $109,200 CAD / year
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Citi

Lead Core Backend Developer

Mississauga, ON, Canada

Pay: $120,800.00 - $170,800.00
Job type: Full-time
Posting language: English
Posted: Aug 21, 2026

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Original job description

We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our Java Server development team and continue to evolve our next-generation rates reference data application.

The successful candidate will gain valuable exposure to the Electronic Trading business and an opportunity to work on a large scale, modern technology platform with a global presence. The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast-paced world of front office trading and finance.

Responsibilities:

Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design
Development of common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi’s best practices
Responsible for creating high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi framework
Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components
Apply an engineering mind-set to development work: understand use-cases in details, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround
Contribute actively to system design decisions
Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to industrial level solutions
Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups
Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI…)
Assisting in third line support during core trading hours

Qualifications:

8+ years of strong hands-on development experience using Java including expertise with Spring or another dependency injection framework
5+ years’ experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low latency, high-volume, scalable microservices
Experience with real-time messaging middleware (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco, …)
Experience working with multi-threaded applications
Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
Application deployment and debugging of applications on UNIX/LINUX

Nice to Have:

Understanding of capital markets and financial derivatives (rates or other)
Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming
Hands-on experience in database technologies, including RDBMS (Oracle, …) and No SQL (MongoDB)
Experience with In-Memory Datastore/Cache libraries (Sol cache, Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire, …)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Test-driven development, including Unit and End-to-End Testing.
Competencies:
Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to face off to business users
Self-motivated individual and with determination to achieve goals
Willingness to learn, both technically and professionally
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Good team working skills and ability to work in a distributed global team environment
Ability to work on a fast-pace environment; Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe

Education:

Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$120,800.00 - $170,800.00

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Responsibilities

The Lead Core Backend Developer will design and develop high-performance, low-latency microservices for a next-generation rates reference data application. They will also contribute to system architecture, ensure code quality through TDD, and provide third-line support during trading hours.

Requirements

Candidates must have over 8 years of Java development experience, including expertise in Spring and building highly scalable, real-time systems. Strong knowledge of messaging middleware, multi-threading, and Linux environments is essential for this role.

Skills

Java
Spring
Microservices
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Solace
Tibco
Multi-threading
UNIX
LINUX
RDBMS
Oracle
MongoDB
Redis
CI/CD
TDD

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Keywords

Java
Spring
Microservices
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Solace
Tibco
Multi-threading
UNIX
Linux
RDBMS
Oracle
MongoDB
Redis
Apache Ignite
Gemfire
CI/CD
TDD
Low Latency
Capital Markets
Financial Derivatives
Electronic Trading
Backend Development
System Design
Performance Tuning
Object-Oriented Programming
Algorithms
Data Structures
Software Engineering
API

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