Software engineer jobs in Canada

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Counted Sep 28, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 2,166
Employers: 893

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $126,170Across 281 listings
Average starting payUSD / year: $151,779Across 89 listings
Average starting payCAD / hour: $52.88Across 23 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 12%257 listings
Hybrid: 41%893 listings
On-site: 45%984 listings

Not specified: 1% (32 listings)

Employers hiring include Amazon (100), Arista Networks (38), Okta (31).

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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Added 21 days ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Batch Management
SimCorp
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 21 days ago
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Stream
Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help rebuild the platform underneath Stream. Over the next year the infrastructure team is moving from AWS to GCP, moving onto Kubernetes, and…
Added 24 days ago
Senior Software Engineer, Performance / Ingénieur(e) Logiciel(le) Senior, Performance
Aduna Global
Montreal, QC
Full-time
…rates are the value proposition. We are hiring a senior backend engineer to own performance as a production engineering discipline: profiling live systems, shipping fixes to production, and…
Added 26 days ago
Senior Software Engineer – IBM Sterling File Gateway (SFG)
J&M Group
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 26 days ago
Sr. Software Engineer – Python | AWS Lambda | GenAI | LLM | DevOps
Astra-North Infoteck Inc. ~ Conquering today’s challenges, achieving tomorrow’s vision!
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer – GenAI, AWS, Python & Java
Added 26 days ago
Lead Software Engineer - Front End (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)
Agoda
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 27 days ago
Staff Software Engineer, AI
Thomson Reuters
Toronto, ON · Canada, Toronto, Ontario
Full-time
…the backing, data, and reach of a global leader. As a Staff Software Engineer, AI, you'll take the lead in developing the intelligent systems powering the next generation of expert…
Added 27 days ago
Software Engineer (Java) – Front Office Pricing & Risk
TD
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 6 months ago
Software Engineer I
Beanfield Technologies Inc.
Toronto, ON
$90,000 to $110,000 CAD / year
Full-time
Added 1 month ago
Senior Control Systems Software Designer
ATS Automation
Cambridge, ON
$42.31 to $58.17 CAD / hour
Added 26 days ago
Senior Software Engineer
BuildOps
Toronto, ON
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale the product experiences and systems behind that mission. In this role, you’ll work across frontend applications, backend…
Added 27 days ago
Senior Software Engineer
Clutch Technologies Inc.
Toronto, ON
Added 26 days ago
Systems Software Engineer
Xanadu
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 26 days ago
Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Motion Recruitment
Toronto, ON
$78 to $92 USD / hour
Contract
Added 28 days ago
Senior Software Engineer Real Assets, Alternative Investments Technology
CPP Investments | Investissements RPC
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 27 days ago
Lead Software Engineer, AI & Emerging Tech
CPP Investments | Investissements RPC
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 24 days ago
Sr. Software Engineer
eBay
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 24 days ago
Staff Software Engineer - MTS 2
eBay
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 26 days ago
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Administrator
Merrithew®
Toronto, ON · Scarborough, ON
Full-time
Added 26 days ago
Staff Software Engineer - USD Authoring
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Vancouver, BC
$143,100 to $191,950 CAD / year
Full-time
Added 26 days ago
Senior Java Backend Engineer – AI/Workflow
Astek
Montreal, QC
Full-time
3 + years of hands-on software development experience in Java ecosystem
Added 26 days ago
Site Reliability Engineer
Electronic Arts (EA)
Vancouver, BC
Full-time
Added 1 month ago
Site Reliability Engineer / Full Stack Engineer
Lockheed Martin
Montreal, QC
Full-time
Added 26 days ago
Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Gumloop
Vancouver, BC
$185,000 to $285,000 USD / year
Temporary
Added 27 days ago
Senior Software Engineer, Inference
AssemblyAI
Toronto, ON
$190,000 to $225,000 USD / year
Full-time
We're hiring a Software Engineer to help turn cutting-edge AI research into products our customers rely on every day. You'll sit on a fast-paced engineering team between our research org…

CPP Investments | Investissements RPC

Lead Software Engineer, AI & Emerging Tech

Toronto, ON, Canada

Job type: Full-time
Experience: 6+ years of progressive experience in engineering roles, including at least 1-2 years leading emerging tech or AI initiatives.
Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 1, 2026

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Original job description

Purpose. Performance. People.

Joining CPP Investments means joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors to drive a single mandate: to deliver strong, sustainable returns for generations of Canadians.

With a long-term horizon and global reach, we deploy capital at scale across public and private markets. Our size, stability, and disciplined investment philosophy allow us to pursue complex opportunities and build enduring partnerships worldwide.

For our people, this means meaningful work with tangible impact, real opportunity, and collaboration with exceptional colleagues who value partnership and performance. Here, you’ll contribute to outcomes that matter alongside team members committed to excellence and shared success.

The Role

As a Lead Engineer for AI & Emerging Tech, you will drive AI platform enablement across the enterprise, you will drive the design, development, and deployment of next-generation tech and AI-powered solutions that unlock business value across the organization. This is a hands-on, leadership role, where you will code, architect, pilot and build robust solutions, mentor engineers, and push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI, AWS cloud, and emerging technologies.

You’ll partner with cross-functional teams like Information Security, Engineering, Risk, Legal and Compliance teams to define and agree on AI platform controls, implement those controls through configuration and code changes that make AI capabilities usable in a controlled enterprise environment. The ideal candidate is a senior engineer passionate about coding, platform enablement with deep expertise in python, emerging tech, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML - and thrives in a fast-paced, exploratory environment.

The Team

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will guide and participate in building, enabling and supporting value-add technology solutions, AI tools and products. You will also demonstrate leadership and drive engineering excellence within your team and influence the same across the Technology & Data department.

Accountabilities

Lead and actively contribute to enable upcoming AI features and products for the organization, onboarding users/teams and use cases onto enterprise AI platforms (e.g. OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, LLM gateways, and agentic frameworks).

Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders - Information Security, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and business teams - to review, negotiate, and agree on platform controls and guardrails for implementation.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Gen AI platform capabilities, including LLM pipelines, agentic workflows, MCP integrations, and Graph/RAG architectures, using clean, maintainable Python and AWS-native tooling.

Implement cloud-native solutions using AWS services such as EKS, Lambda, Fargate, Glue, and Athena.

Optimize performance of AI products, Drive continuous learning and experimentation with cutting-edge Gen AI methods, frameworks, APIs, and toolchains.

Act as a subject matter expert (SME) on Gen AI technologies and help shape the organization's AI roadmap.

Own end-to-end delivery of platform enablement initiatives; manage timelines, deliverables, and milestones using Agile practices (Scrum/Kanban).

Advice, maintain, monitor and support AI platform and product users.

What you bring

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; advanced degrees or certifications are an asset.

6+ years of progressive experience in engineering roles, including at least 1-2 years leading emerging tech or AI initiatives.

Experience in:

Gen AI platforms, models (ChatGPT/Codex, Claude, Gemini, Copilot) and prompt engineering techniques

Hands-on experience implementing controls through configuration and code: IAM/access policies, guardrails, logging and audit trails, quota/rate limiting, and network/data-protection controls.

Agentic AI, MCP, and Graph/RAG architectures

Gen AI Framework (Amazon Bedrock, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, PandsAI)

Web application development using Next.js, React, TypeScript/JavaScript

AWS cloud services (EC2, ELB/GLB/NLB, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, Athena, Glue, Lake Formation)

Infrastructure as Code (Puppet, Terraform, Docker) and containerized deployments

ETL orchestration using Apache Airflow/DAGs

Vector/Graph databases (Weaviate, Milvus, PGVector, Neo4J, Neptune) and query optimization

Python programming (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Boto3)

Automated testing frameworks (Ragas, Playwright, Zephyr, Selenium,)

Familiarity with SDLC best practices, DevSecOps, Agile Scrum/Kanban, and work management tools (JIRA, Confluence, JIRA Align).

Knowledge of LLM fine tuning techniques

Experience in BI tools like QuickSight, Tableau, and knowledge of financial markets and enterprise data systems

You are motivated to contribute to something larger than yourself, approach complex challenges with rigor, and hold yourself to high standards in a collaborative, performance-driven environment.

We provide colleagues with cutting-edge AI tools, dedicated learning time, and practical support to help them deliver with greater impact.

Inclusion & Accessibility

CPP Investments is committed to equitable access to employment and building a workforce that reflects diverse talent and perspectives. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Attention: Protect Yourself from Fraud

CPP Investments is committed to a secure and transparent recruitment process. We will never ask candidates for payment or financial information at any stage of hiring. All legitimate opportunities are posted on our careers page, and communications will come from our applicant tracking system, Workday.

CPP Investments may use AI tools to help screen and assess applicants by analyzing resumes and applications for relevant skills and experience. These tools support, but do not replace, human decision-making.

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Responsibilities

The Lead Software Engineer will drive AI platform enablement by designing and deploying scalable Gen AI solutions and agentic workflows. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement enterprise-grade AI controls and mentor engineering staff to ensure technical excellence.

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering and at least 6 years of progressive engineering experience. Proficiency in Python, AWS cloud services, and hands-on experience with Gen AI frameworks and LLM architectures are required.

Skills

Python
AWS
Generative AI
Machine Learning
LLM
Agentic workflows
Cloud infrastructure
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Next.js
TypeScript
Data engineering
Agile
Prompt engineering
Vector databases

Benefits

Cutting-edge AI tools
Dedicated learning time
Practical support

Visa sponsorship

Not detected in the job text

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI
Python
AWS
Machine Learning
LLM
Amazon Bedrock
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Kubernetes
Terraform
Docker
Next.js
TypeScript
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
Data Engineering
Vector Databases
Graph Databases
Prompt Engineering
Cloud Computing
DevSecOps
ETL
Apache Airflow
Financial Markets
Enterprise Data
Information Security
Risk Management

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