975 remote software engineer jobs open to developers in Canada: backend, full-stack and AI engineer roles at fully remote startups.
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Own low-level LLM inference kernels, benchmarking, and profiling tooling for custom AI hardware; must be currently enrolled in a Master's; Python and C/C++ or Rust, computer architecture/memory/parallel computing, AI coding agents; well-funded startup
Remote North America or Europe
Own SDK and agentic workflows for LLM inference on custom AI silicon; must deeply understand LLM inference, strong Python, agentic tooling; bonus: ML compilers, accelerator SDKs, quantization/compression, vLLM/SGLang; well-funded startup, real-silicon impact
Remote North America or Europe
Own and operate backend infrastructure for AI tooling and MCP services; global remote, async; on-call required; 5+ years, TypeScript or Go, APIs, OAuth/OIDC/JWT, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, Docker, IaC, observability; equity
Remote anywhere
Lead architecture and shipping for an open-source federated AI leaderboard/toolkit for fusion models; contractor, must overlap substantially with US Eastern hours; 8+ years, Python 3.12+, FastAPI, async orchestration, distributed systems, API design, AI coding agents; bonus: RAG, Vue/TypeScript, Rust/Tauri, P2P
Remote within about one hour of US Eastern Time; substantial overlap with ET required
Own and evolve the data platform for wealth-management products, leading a data engineering team while coding hands-on; on-call/incident response; 7+ years software, 4+ data engineering, 2+ years team/tech lead, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Temporal/Airflow/Dagster/Step Functions, SQL, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch; bonus: financial data, PIPEDA, Datadog, AI tooling
Remote Canada only; location header lists Montreal and Ottawa, with Ontario explicitly eligible for compensation.
Own backend tax systems for crypto/equities cost basis, gain/loss, withholding, and compliance reporting; 6+ years, distributed systems, high-throughput services, data pipelines, end-to-end ownership, cross-functional delivery, responsible generative AI use; equity and bonus eligible.
Remote Canada only
Own data engineering for workforce forecasting and staffing products; Canada only; on-call rotation; 5+ years data engineering, 2+ years Databricks, Python, SQL, dbt, AWS, CDC/events, IaC, Looker/LookML, regulated data; 12-month contract, main data engineer, migration to Databricks.
Remote anywhere in Canada
Leads full-stack build projects across a SaaS portfolio while coaching teams on AI-native and agentic development; 7+ years, full-stack across infra/backend/web/mobile/databases, AI coding tools, CI/CD, testing, observability, architecture/security/performance.
Remote policy unclear
Own major runtime surfaces for an in-production AI agent platform for compensation software; on-call/pager; 5+ years backend, Python, relational DBs, GCP/Kubernetes, production LLM systems, agent loop/tool calling/RAG/evals; bonus: streaming, compliance-adjacent engineering; small 3–4 person team
Remote US or Alberta, Canada; Calgary office optional
Build and maintain financial/ERP software with product managers; 1–3 years, CS degree or equivalent, C#, React, SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, unit testing; bonus: Oracle DB, GitHub Copilot, .NET Core, JavaScript, accounting/financial apps.
Remote Canada only
Own hands-on AWS infrastructure architecture for an AI customer-experience platform; 8+ years DevOps/SRE/cloud, 2+ years architect/tech lead, AWS, distributed systems, Terraform/AWS CDK/CloudFormation, CI/CD, Python, Bash, Java or Node.js, Kubernetes; bonus: AWS/Kubernetes certs, consulting, Azure/GCP
Remote North America; specifically names Toronto, Canada
Own BI analytics platform architecture for insurance claims software; 8+ years data engineering/architecture/warehousing, 3+ years accountable architect, expert SQL, Python, Snowflake, dimensional/normalized modeling, PII/regulatory controls; bonus: dbt, Terraform, Airflow/Dagster, catalog tools; equity
Remote anywhere
Own end-to-end Rails features, broker trade imports/integrations, and AI features for a trading journal; remote Canada only with 4+ hours Brasília overlap; 5+ years Ruby on Rails, production app ownership, AI coding tools, AI models; bonus: Swift/iOS, trading/markets
Remote anywhere in Canada; 4+ hours daily overlap with Brasília time required
Own self-managed infra for mobile subscription/paywall SaaS; on-call; 10+ years infrastructure incl. physical hardware, 5+ years Kubernetes, bare metal, OVH/Hetzner, AWS/GCP, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, FinOps; bonus: Proxmox, Ceph, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Aerospike; fast-growing SaaS
Remote anywhere; optional onsite in Serbia or UK offices
Own fraud and abuse prevention for a consumer AI product, building detection and incident response from zero; 10+ years, security fundamentals, TypeScript/Rust/Python; bonus: payment fraud, Cloudflare/WAF/bot management, trust & safety, ML anomaly detection; new function
Remote in the United States or North American time zones
Build and improve Microsoft-stack web apps, APIs, and a proprietary platform; must reside in Western Canada and be eligible to work in Canada, English required; 5+ years C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET, MS SQL/T-SQL, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, enterprise web apps; bonus: React/Vue, jQuery, Azure App Services/DevOps
Remote Canada, Western provinces only: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Manitoba
Own advanced real-time character animation systems for a AAA BioShock game in Unreal Engine 5; professional French and English required; 5+ years in technical game animation, shipped AAA title, UE5 animation tools, Motion Matching, IK, retargeting, ragdoll, cloth simulation, Maya
Remote Canada; location listed as Montréal, Quebec
Own greenfield high-availability and disaster-recovery architecture for latency-critical, stateful financial systems; remote from US or Canada; 10+ years building distributed, cloud-native systems at hyperscale, leading large cross-team projects; bonus: none
Remote from anywhere in the United States or Canada
Own control and context-plane architecture for a web-data platform’s core and MLOps substrate; shared infra on-call; 10+ years, Java, Python, gRPC/Protobuf, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, SLOs/SLIs, distributed systems; bonus: Temporal/DBOS, MLOps, service mesh
Remote worldwide; ATS header names Poland
Own and ship core subsystems for an enterprise platform that runs and governs AI agents in customer Kubernetes environments; North America remote, strong U.S. Eastern Time preference; Go, distributed systems, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, customer onboarding/debugging; equity
Remote North America; strong preference for candidates in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone
Own API change requests, published API correctness, quickstarts/SDK fixes, and partner technical escalations for a crypto/fintech API platform; senior developer advocacy or partner-facing engineering in crypto/fintech/B2B APIs, REST/WebSocket, technical writing; bonus: exchange integrations, SDK or AI/agent surface ownership
Conflicting location signals: remote global, with Ukraine explicitly named
Own end-to-end features for an enterprise AI SaaS product, plus AI agents, APIs, web UI, and internal tools; 2–4 years full-stack experience, production systems, heavy AI-tool use, current on LLMs/agent frameworks; bonus: early-stage startup or own products.
Remote US or Canada only.
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59% of the 964 postings list pay. Among the 187 priced in Canadian dollars, the median is C$145K a year and the middle half runs C$119K to C$187K.
499 companies have open software engineer roles in Canada. The most active right now:
Share of the 964 postings that name each skill:
Figures from the postings on this page, updated weekly. Last update 2026-10-26.
Median listed pay is C$145K a year across 187 postings priced in Canadian dollars; the top 5% exceed C$246K. A further 367 postings pay in US dollars, $150K to $263K, usually US companies hiring across the region. 41% of postings do not list pay.
703 of the 964 postings are limited to Canada, usually for payroll or time-zone reasons; 261 are open worldwide. 441 also hire in the US.
57% ask for 5 to 10 years, 24% for 2 to 5 years, 16% for 10 or more, and 3% are open to candidates with under 2 years.
100 in the last 7 days, 975 over the last 6 months, from 499 companies.
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