How many software engineers jobs are open in Canada?

166 right now, 32% of them remote. The number comes from live postings on company career pages and refreshes hourly, so it reflects roles still accepting applications rather than an all-time archive.

Which companies hire software engineers in Canada?

The most active right now are Ubisoft, Lyft, Affirm, Okta, Stripe. Ubisoft alone has 24 open software engineer roles.

What skills do Canada employers ask software engineers for?

Across 60 recent postings, the most requested are machine-learning (18% of ads), creativity (10% of ads), adaptability (8% of ads), aws (8% of ads), decision-making (7% of ads).

How current is this data?

Counts refresh hourly. Postings drop out automatically when they expire, and the month-over-month figure compares today against a snapshot recorded 30 days ago, so a rise or fall reflects real movement rather than a change in how we count.

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Who's hiring software engineers in Canada

166 software engineer roles are open in Canada right now across 30 employers, 32% of them remote. Everything below is counted from live postings on company career pages.

Live openings: 166
Employers: 30
Remote share: 32%
Share of Canada: 20.1%

Companies posting the most software engineer roles in Canada

1Ubisoft24 open roles
2Lyft21 open roles
3Affirm18 open roles
4Okta14 open roles
5Stripe12 open roles
6Instacart12 open roles
7Elastic10 open roles
8Faire8 open roles
9Robinhood7 open roles
10Samsara6 open roles

What Canada employers ask for

Share of the 60 most recent software engineer postings that mention each skill. Read it as a checklist for your resume.

machine-learning18%
creativity10%
adaptability8%
aws8%
decision-making7%
prototyping5%
kubernetes5%
android5%
mongodb5%
leadership3%
llm3%
collaboration3%

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Where these roles are, inside Canada

Locations exactly as the employers wrote them on the posting.

1Toronto, Canada27 roles
2Montreal, QC, ca21 roles
3Canada18 roles
4Remote Canada18 roles
5Toronto, Ontario, Canada15 roles
6Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only)12 roles
7Toronto11 roles
8Remote - Canada7 roles

Recently posted

The newest software engineer openings in the feed for Canada.

Principal Software Engineer, Product Engineering
Dropbox
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Samsara
RemoteRemote - Canada
Software Engineer II
Affirm
RemoteRemote Canada
Design Engineer, Presence
Stripe
US, Canada
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Brex
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Senior Rendering Engineer Manager
Roblox
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Principal Software Engineer, Physics
Roblox
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Software Engineer, New Grad
Stripe
Toronto
Software Engineer, Intern (Summer or Winter)
Stripe
Toronto
Staff Software Engineer, Financial Crimes
Stripe
Toronto
Integration Reliability Engineer, Payments
Stripe
Canada
Staff Software Engineer, Product Risk
Stripe
Toronto

Software Engineers in other markets

The same role, counted the same way, everywhere else we have coverage.

1United States825 open
2Germany308 open
3United Kingdom152 open
4India137 open

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Software Engineers in Canada: the questions people ask

How many software engineers jobs are open in Canada?: 166 right now, 32% of them remote. The number comes from live postings on company career pages and refreshes hourly, so it reflects roles still accepting applications rather than an all-time archive.
Which companies hire software engineers in Canada?: The most active right now are Ubisoft, Lyft, Affirm, Okta, Stripe. Ubisoft alone has 24 open software engineer roles.
What skills do Canada employers ask software engineers for?: Across 60 recent postings, the most requested are machine-learning (18% of ads), creativity (10% of ads), adaptability (8% of ads), aws (8% of ads), decision-making (7% of ads).
How current is this data?: Counts refresh hourly. Postings drop out automatically when they expire, and the month-over-month figure compares today against a snapshot recorded 30 days ago, so a rise or fall reflects real movement rather than a change in how we count.

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