Software development jobs in Toronto, ON and nearby

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

Counted Oct 4, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 1,533
Employers: 550

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $119,424Across 161 listings
Average starting payUSD / year: $146,915Across 47 listings
Average starting payCAD / hour: $61.66Across 29 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 0%0 listings
Hybrid: 49%750 listings
On-site: 50%765 listings

Not specified: 1% (18 listings)

Employers hiring include Amazon (49), Okta (43), S M Software Solutions Inc (32).

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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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Principal Backend Engineer
US Mobile
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Cloud Architect
SOTI
Mississauga, ON
- Full-time
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Cluster Operations Software Engineer
Cerebras
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Senior Software Engineer - Brokerage Platform
Moomoo Canada
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Marketing Cloud
Amazon
Toronto, ON
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Senior Software Developer
Intact FC
Richmond Hill, ON · Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Senior Software Engineer, Atlas Search Systems
MongoDB
Toronto, ON
5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining industrial-strength backend software in a compl
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Full Stack Developer
Hygiena LLC
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Front End Developer
Hygiena LLC
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Java Backend Developer
Capgemini
Toronto, ON
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Java Full Stack Developer
Veracity Ventures Inc.
Toronto, ON
- $95,000 to $135,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
…enterprise applications. In this role, you will work across the full software development lifecycle - delivering distributed systems, event-driven architectures,…
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Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack & Frontend
MultiTech
Toronto, ON
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Staff Software Engineer - Lending Foundations
Nubank
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Senior Full Stack Developer
BrainStation
Toronto, ON
- $120,000 to $145,000 USD / year
- Full-time
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Full Stack Developer
BrainStation
Toronto, ON
- $90,000 to $120,000 USD / year
- Full-time
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Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform & Data Architecture
MultiTech
Toronto, ON
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Software Engineer, Full-Stack Applications, Associate Director (Python & React)
Fitch Group
Toronto, ON
Fitch Ratings is seeking a solid Software Engineer to join our global Ratings Technology team in Toronto. This is an opportunity to build and enhance mission-critical applications that…
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Lead Software Engineer, Full-Stack Applications - Ratings Technology
Fitch Group
Toronto, ON
- $180,000 to $220,000 CAD / year
Lead Software Engineer, Full-Stack Applications – AI Fluent
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Software Engineer - Windowing & Graphics
Huawei Canada
Markham, ON
- Full-time
Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Software Engineer.
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Software Engineer
Opendoor
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Staff Software Developer
Clio
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
We are currently seeking a Staff Software Developer to join our rapidly growing engineering team. This role is for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions and being…
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Senior Software Architect
Prophix
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Staff Backend Software Engineer
Cognichip
Toronto, ON
- $184,000 to $225,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
We are seeking a Staff Backend Software Engineer to spearhead the deve
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Senior Full Stack Developer
CGI
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
CGI is seeking an experienced Senior Full Stack Developer to join our growing Software Engineering Practice within the Emerging Technologies team.
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
Terminal
Toronto, ON
- $200,000 to $295,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
Terminal builds telematics data infrastructure for the commercial fleet industry. Commercial auto insurers and fleet software companies, including industry leaders like Intact Insurance,…

Citi

Lead Core Backend Developer

Mississauga, ON, Canada

$120,800.00 - $170,800.00 · Full-time

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Job details

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

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

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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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