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  • Montreal, QC, Canada Affirm Full-time $110,000 - $150,000 Contract

    The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for affirm’s data infrastructure across OLTP and OLAP systems, spanning critical online checkout databases, batch orchestration, streaming infrastructure, event-driven frameworks, BI, analytics tooling, large-scale data platforms, and agentic data tools such as semantic layers and internal platform data...


  • Montreal, QC, Canada Affirm, Inc. Full-time $110,000 - $150,000 Contract

    Affirm’s engineering team is building large-scale, fault-tolerant, global infrastructure shared across multiple financial products, merchants, and vendors. Making this infrastructure transparently available to all engineers is critical to the business. The engineering culture emphasizes blameless postmortems, detailed technical specifications, and...


  • Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, Canada Highspot, Inc. Full-time $100,000 - $130,000 Contract

    About the Role Our Machine Learning Team is developing next-generation AI capabilities for Highspot’s leading sales enablement platform. We stay at the forefront of machine learning research, continuously improving our models and algorithms through collaboration with product and data science teams. Our mission is to help our customers unlock the power of...


  • Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, Canada Highspot, Inc. Full-time $100,000 - $130,000 Contract

    Shape the future of Highspot’s AI technology as a Senior Backend Software Engineer focused on machine learning initiatives. Help advance our sales platform through innovative solutions and collaborations. This role invites you to lead the development of scalable machine learning models, working closely with product and data science teams to fulfill...


  • Montreal, QC, Canada Grafana Full-time $90,000 - $130,000 Contract

    Grafana Cloud is a composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana, allowing customers to use open-source observability software without installing, maintaining, and scaling their own observability stack The Databases team owns Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles....


  • Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Atlassian Full-time

    Overview Working at AtlassianAtlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.To help our teams work together effectively, this role is...


  • North Census Division, SK, Saskatchewan, Canada AutoScale Ventures Full-time

    Senior Software Engineer (Full-Time, Remote) — Canada ca (vehicle history and data) and SquidProxies.We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve the backend systems that power these data-heavy products in production. If you enjoy owning systems end to end, from design through long-term support, this role is for you. ...


  • North Census Division, SK, Saskatchewan, Canada Akamai Full-time

    Architect high-throughput REST APIs with Python and Flask at Akamai, supporting resilient backend infrastructure for enterprise security platforms. As a Senior II Software Engineer, you will lead architecture, design, and implementation for high-performance backend systems. You will establish API standards, improve performance, and advance fault-tolerant...


  • Toronto, ON, Toronto Census Division, ON; Ontario, Canada Harvey Full-time

    Contribute to the future of legal technology as a Backend Software Engineer at Harvey in Toronto. Engage in a hybrid work model while creating innovative user-facing features and robust backend infrastructure. Our rapidly growing team is seeking engineers passionate about developing AI-powered solutions for leading law firms. In this role, you'll design...


  • Canada Harvey Full-time

    Contribute to the future of legal technology as a Backend Software Engineer at Harvey in Toronto. Engage in a hybrid work model while creating innovative user-facing features and robust backend infrastructure. Our rapidly growing team is seeking engineers passionate about developing AI-powered solutions for leading law firms. In this role, you'll design...


  • Vancouver, BC, Canada Appnovation Full-time

    Build .NET backend services in Vancouver with REST APIs, Temporal workflows, and asynchronous processing for a K-12 education SaaS platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop core services for Appnovation’s operational platform. You will work with ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, PostgreSQL, and event-driven integrations. The...


  • Toronto, ON, Toronto Census Division, ON; Ontario, Canada Movable Ink Full-time €147,300 - €192,000 Temporary

    Movable Ink scales content personalization for marketers through data-activated content generation and AI decisioning. The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to maximize revenue, simplify workflow and boost marketing agility. Headquartered in New York City with close to 600 employees, Movable Ink serves its global client base with...


  • Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Tucows, Inc. Full-time

    Design reliable backend systems with Python or Go at Tucows Domains, working remotely from Canada on APIs, databases, and production software. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will build and maintain services supporting Tucows Domains products. This hands-on individual contributor role provides technical direction across multiple systems while...


  • Halifax, NS, Halifax County, NS; Nova Scotia, Canada Affirm Full-time

    Shape the future of online storage with Affirm as a Backend Software Engineer. This remote role focuses on building and scaling Cache Services using Redis and Valkey while optimizing infrastructure. Join the Data and Storage Services team at Affirm, where your expertise in building reliable backend systems will enhance our online checkout databases and data...


  • Edmonton, Division No. 11, Canada Platform.sh Full-time

    Upsun seeks a Backend Software Engineer to enhance our billing systems. Focus on backend service development in Go for complex billing integrations and ensure accuracy in customer invoicing. In this role, you will build and maintain the backend services for our billing platform. Your expertise will drive projects that handle revenue across multiple...


  • Toronto, ON, Canada Platform.sh Full-time

    Upsun seeks a Backend Software Engineer to enhance our billing systems. Focus on backend service development in Go for complex billing integrations and ensure accuracy in customer invoicing. In this role, you will build and maintain the backend services for our billing platform. Your expertise will drive projects that handle revenue across multiple...


  • Vancouver, BC, Greater Vancouver Regional District, BC; British Columbia, Canada Tucows Domains Full-time €93,600 - €104,000 Temporary

    Overview Tucows is a remote-first backend engineering role for Canada, building open‐internet products across domains, Ting, and Wavelo. Responsibilities Design and develop secure, scalable, reliable, and efficient backend services using modern frameworks and tools. Collaborate with frontend developers to define clear and consistent API endpoints,...


  • Moncton, NB, Westmorland Comte, NB; Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada Tucows Domains Full-time €93,600 - €104,000 Temporary

    Overview Tucows is a remote-first backend engineering role for Canada, building open‐internet products across domains, Ting, and Wavelo. Responsibilities Design and develop secure, scalable, reliable, and efficient backend services using modern frameworks and tools. Collaborate with frontend developers to define clear and consistent API endpoints,...


  • Edmonton, AB, Edmonton Census Division, AB; Alberta, Canada Affirm Full-time

    The Streaming team at Affirm is responsible for all things data and drives the strategy for event driven architecture, stream processing, data exploration, discovery and validation We leverage existing open source technologies like Kafka, Flink, Schema registry and also build our own as needed As a member of our team you would spend time identifying and...


  • Mississauga, ON, Peel Regional District, ON; Ontario, Canada Compunnel Inc. Full-time

    We are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-based software systems. The ideal candidate will architect backend services, build robust APIs, leverage modern cloud technologies, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions that support...