Software engineer jobs in Canada

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

Counted Sep 23, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 2,184
Employers: 914

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $127,995Across 280 listings
Average starting payUSD / year: $150,591Across 95 listings
Average starting payCAD / hour: $58.73Across 29 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 12%258 listings
Hybrid: 41%905 listings
On-site: 45%986 listings

Not specified: 2% (35 listings)

Employers hiring include Amazon (97), Arista Networks (38), EA SPORTS (30).

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 5 months ago
Senior Software Engineer - Golang
Litmus
Remote, Canada
$120,000 to $150,000 CAD / year
Full-time · Remote
We’re a growth-stage software company helping manufacturers access, structure, and use real-time data from machines, systems, and sensors at the edge. Our platform sits at the intersection…
Added 4 months ago
Senior Backend Software Engineer
LiveBarn
Montreal, Quebec
Full-time
Added 3 months ago
Staff Embedded Software Engineer, VCS
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Remote, Canada
$137,300 to $171,600 CAD / year
Full-time · Remote
…vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the…
Added 4 months ago
Staff Android Software Engineer - Infotainment App
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Remote, Canada
$137,000 to $181,890 CAD / year
Full-time · Remote
…vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the…
Added 4 months ago
Senior Embedded Software Engineer, VCS
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Remote, Canada
$108,200 to $135,300 CAD / year
Full-time · Remote
…vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the…
Added 4 months ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
iManage
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 15 days ago
Senior Software Engineer - Evisort AI (Python/Typescript)
Workday
Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
Added 3 months ago
DevOps Cloud Engineer
Nasdaq
Toronto, Ontario
Full-time
As a DevOps Cloud Engineer you'll play a critical role in designing, automating, and operating the cloud infrastructure that powers Nasdaq's global solutions and enables seamless software…
Added 4 months ago
Software Development Engineer, AWS Connect-Markov
Amazon
Vancouver, British Columbia
Added 4 months ago
Staff Software Engineer
OpenMined
Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
We're looking for a Senior / Staff Software Engineer to join OpenMined, a nonprofit on a mission to build the public network for the world's non-public data - unlocking 1,000,000x more…
Added 4 months ago
Staff QA Software Engineer
OpenMined
Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
Added 4 months ago
Senior Software Engineer
Jobber
Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
Are you an experienced software developer with a passion for finding creative solutions to real-world problems?
Added 1 month ago
Software Engineer - Hardware Design Verification
NXP Semiconductors
Ottawa, Ontario · Kanata
Full-time
Software Engineer – Hardware Design Verification
Added 4 months ago
Ingénieur(e) principal - conception du poste de pilotage et facteurs humains
SOGECLAIR
Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
Added 4 months ago
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
Super.com
Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
Added 24 days ago
Software Engineer (Java)
Scotiabank
Toronto, ON
GBME is searching for Software Engineer who are continuous learners and are eager to boost capabilities of capital markets products and analytics platforms.
Added 29 days ago
Software Engineer
Scotiabank
Toronto, ON
GBME is searching for Software Engineers who are continuous learners and are eager to boost capabilities of capital markets products and analytics platforms.
Added 11 days ago
Lead Software Engineer (Python | Databricks)
Scotiabank
Toronto, ON
GBME is searching for Software Engineers who are continuous learners and are eager to boost capabilities of capital markets products and analytics platforms.
Added 21 days ago
Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack)
Scotiabank
Toronto, ON
…equities and derivatives lines of business, you will be a Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack) for several in-house developed…
Added 13 days ago
Senior Software Architect(MarTech)
Scotiabank
Toronto, ON
…across our web, mobile, and marketing channels. As a Senior Software Architect, you will provide architectural leadership across a diverse set of platforms supporting Digital Commerce,…
Added 13 days ago
Lead Software Engineer
Scotiabank
Toronto, ON
GBME is searching for a Lead Software Engineer who is eager to boost capabilities of capital markets products and analytics platforms.
Added 13 days ago
Software Engineer (C++)
Scotiabank
Toronto, ON
…exciting world of Derivatives/Capital markets. We are looking for Software Engineer to join this dynamic…
Added 16 days ago
Software Engineer (Python/PL-SQL)
Scotiabank
Toronto, Ontario
GBME is searching for Software Engineers (Python/PL-SQL) who are continuous learners and are eager to boost capabilities of capital markets products and analytics pla
Added 21 days ago
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Scotiabank
Toronto, ON
Added 4 months ago
Senior Software Engineer II
SurveyMonkey
Remote, Canada
$126,400 to $158,000 CAD / year
Full-time · Remote

Partyhat

Senior Backend Engineer

Remote, Canada

Job type: Full-time
Workplace: Remote
Posting language: English
Posted: May 16, 2026

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The Mission

We aren’t looking for a traditional server administrator or a standard database developer who just writes basic CRUD APIs. We need an elite Backend Systems Architect who can build world-class, hyper-scalable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure with surgical precision. Your job is to engineer our core distributed systems, optimize real-time data pipelines, and ensure absolute service reliability under immense global load. This is a remote, high-availability role for a technical powerhouse who views backend systems as a high-performance engine and is comfortable operating at the absolute frontier of the Web3 economy.

We value structural integrity, clean concurrent code, and engineering momentum over corporate credentials. Whether you have designed high-throughput financial rails or led the architecture for high-velocity distributed platforms, we care about your ability to ship. If you have the analytical rigor to handle massive data concurrency, eliminate latency spikes, and protect data integrity, we will give you the runway to build our engine room.

Key Responsibilities

Backend Systems Development: Design, scale, and maintain high-performance server-side logic that remains rock-solid under heavy concurrent user velocity.
API Architecture: Build and optimize flexible, self-documenting API schemas that connect our complex internal data layers seamlessly to our consumer interfaces.
Distributed Systems: Architect resilient, decentralized system nodes that communicate asynchronously with zero single points of failure.
Database Design: Structure highly performant database schemas, indexes, and caching strategies to ensure sub-millisecond retrieval speeds for critical data.
Infrastructure Scalability: Constantly stress-test, optimize, and scale our core service clusters to handle explosive traffic spikes and massive computational throughput.
Service Reliability: Implement rigorous monitoring, automated failover protocols, and strict error-handling mechanics to ensure absolute 24/7/365 system uptime.

The Technical Stack

You must possess elite-level, hands-on mastery of the following stack:

Node.js: Ability to stand up independent microservices, experience with REST APIs, understanding of advanced event loop and memory optimizations.
GraphQL: Complex schema design, familiarity with resolver optimizations such as N+1 problem and dataloaders, efficient context management with high concurrency requests.

Golang: Concurrent programming patterns (goroutines/channels), and high throughput microservice experience.
MongoDB: Advanced indexing strategies, aggregation pipeline optimizations, non-relational database design.
Kafka: Real-time event streaming, message broker architecture, and distributed partition management.
Redis: In-memory caching architecture, handling of real-time pub/sub mechanics, knowledge of efficient commands and operations.
The Requirements
The "Systems Architect": Proven experience shipping production-grade, highly resilient backend ecosystems. You have a deep understanding of data structures, concurrency, and network protocols.
Analytical Rigor: You don't guess when it comes to systems performance. You use profiling tools, load-testing frameworks, and internal monitoring metrics to track down and eliminate bottlenecks.
Hyper-Availability: This isn't a 9-to-5. Our ecosystem runs 24/7/365. You must be available 7 days a week to handle real-time hotfixes, critical system deployments, and sudden market surges.
Web3/Internet Culture Intuition: You understand the unique technical challenges of digital asset data, transaction validation speeds, and fast-paced, digital-native environments.
Operational Excellence: Self-motivated and highly organized; you write clean, idiomatic code, write bulletproof tests, and manage your development pipeline without hand-holding.

Operational Details

Location: Fully Remote.
Schedule: On-call 7 days a week (Requires high flexibility to handle real-time hotfixes, system maintenance, and global release cycles).
Payment: All compensation is processed in digital assets (USDC/USDT).

Why Join Us?

We offer more than just a typical software engineering ticket-shuffling job; we offer the chance to architect the engine of a global powerhouse.

Extreme Technical Autonomy: We value clean execution over red tape. You will have the freedom to design, optimize, and break new ground within a high-speed environment.
Global Infrastructure: Your code will run the core systems touched, tested, and relied upon by thousands of users every single second across a worldwide landscape.
A Culture of Momentum: Join a team that moves at the speed of light. If your system architecture is tested and ready to ship on a Sunday night, we push it to production.
High-Growth Upside: We value "potential over pedigree." For a senior engineer who takes extreme ownership of our core platform, there is a clear, unrestricted runway to lead the entire engineering organization.

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Responsibilities

Design and maintain high-performance, fault-tolerant backend infrastructure and distributed systems to handle global load. Optimize real-time data pipelines, API schemas, and database performance to ensure absolute service reliability.

Requirements

Requires elite mastery of Node.js, Golang, and distributed data tools with a proven track record of shipping production-grade ecosystems. Candidates must be available 7 days a week for hotfixes and possess deep intuition for Web3 technical challenges.

Skills

Node.js
GraphQL
Golang
MongoDB
Kafka
Redis
Microservices Architecture
Distributed Systems
API Architecture
Database Design
Infrastructure Scalability
Service Reliability
Concurrency
Network Protocols
Load Testing
Web3

Benefits

Extreme Technical Autonomy
High-Growth Upside
Opportunity to Lead Engineering Organization

Remote locations

Canada
Argentina
Bulgaria
Colombia
Croatia
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Poland
Romania
Serbia
Ukraine

Remote locations (standardized)

Canada
Argentina
Bulgaria
Colombia
Croatia
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Poland
Romania
Serbia
Ukraine

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Keywords

Node.js
GraphQL
Golang
MongoDB
Kafka
Redis
Microservices
Web3
Distributed Systems
Asynchronous Architecture
Event Loop Optimization
Goroutines
Channels
Aggregation Pipeline
Pub/Sub
RPC
Containerization
Horizontal Scaling
USDC
USDT
Digital Assets
Fault-Tolerant
High-Availability
Latency Optimization
Data Concurrency
API Schemas
Load Testing
Profiling Tools
Backend Systems Architect
Real-time Data Pipelines

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