Top Software Engineer Jobs in Ottawa

Build and own technically complex, mission-critical full-stack systems and AI-powered products. Define technical strategy, design and ship end-to-end features across backend, frontend, and mobile, and scale data ingestion and APIs. Lead cross-team projects, mentor engineers, drive technical standards, and partner with product, design, and customer teams to deliver measurable impact.

Develop embedded board support packages and secure bootloaders for Ford’s next-generation vehicle infotainment, connectivity, and hardware modules. Responsibilities include implementing BSP and secure boot features, creating design documentation, participating in reviews, supporting verification and validation, troubleshooting across teams and vendors, and developing Linux kernel drivers. The role requires strong C, ARM SoC, BSP, bootloader, and Linux driver experience, with automotive networking and hardware security experience preferred.

Design, develop, test, and support embedded firmware for Intel, Power, and ARM platforms. Analyze requirements, read IC datasheets and schematics, perform architecture/design/code reviews, evaluate new technologies, debug software/hardware, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to bring up boards and improve processes.

Build software for renewable energy campuses, including high-fidelity simulations, geospatial data pipelines, automated site and electrical design, and energy management systems. Develop real-time controls, SCADA and telemetry integrations, testing infrastructure, and safety systems for islanded solar and storage facilities. Collaborate with power, civil, and external engineering experts to convert domain knowledge into reliable software and accelerate utility-scale site design and deployment.

Develop and ship high-quality software for the Graykey platform, including new features, bug fixes, and technical debt remediation. Collaborate with Design and QA teams to improve user experiences and automated UI testing. The role requires Python development, Git proficiency, Linux familiarity, strong technical problem-solving, collaboration, and continuous learning. Candidates must reside in Canada.

Lead backend architecture for an internal reporting and business intelligence platform. Own technical roadmaps, make cross-service architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, review designs and code, solve complex technical problems, coordinate dependencies, manage technical debt, partner across teams, mentor engineers, and contribute hands-on code for high-risk work.

Design, develop, test, and support process automation software for optical test and verification from NPI to volume manufacturing. Collaborate with R&D, Manufacturing, and Quality to deliver scalable, well-documented test applications, share best practices, and support process engineers at manufacturing sites.

Designs and optimizes air traffic management system architectures spanning hardware, software, networks, virtualization, and datacenter infrastructure. The engineer automates deployments with scripts, evaluates site and cloud environments, develops client proposals and compliance matrices, prepares bills of materials, and maintains technical product documentation. Requires Linux administration, VMware or OpenStack experience, networking knowledge, and the ability to pass a U.S. government background check. Canadian citizenship is required.

Develop and architect scalable iOS applications for millions of users. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver features, promote clean architecture and iOS best practices, monitor performance and crash analytics, and support technical excellence through testing, code reviews, and maintainable code.

Build and maintain Camunda 8 backend data-layer services across relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch. Design scalable storage, query, retention, streaming, and secondary-storage solutions; investigate production data issues; improve performance and operability; and deliver engineering initiatives collaboratively with Product, QA, Support, and SRE. Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations.

Build and maintain scalable financial data infrastructure, including ingestion, validation, normalization, and integrations. Develop systems that calculate portfolio performance metrics efficiently across high-volume datasets, improve reliability and observability, and support distributed processing. Create internal tools, dashboards, reusable schemas, asset data feeds, and self-service analytics capabilities. Collaborate cross-functionally to expand market-data coverage, support B2B integrations, and strengthen operational resilience.

The Staff Software Engineer, Backend for Capacity Modeling develops scalable backend systems, maintains capacity models, and collaborates on technical strategies while ensuring system availability and high-quality code delivery.

Lead technical direction for developer platform tooling: CI/CD, build systems, and AI coding agents. Design, build, and scale AI agents for coding, code review, testing, release automation, and incident response. Standardize tools, mentor engineers, drive cross-team technical projects, and represent the platform externally.

Build full‑stack web features from zero to one, integrate with third‑party APIs, design and manage state machines for financial workflows, own features through launch and post‑launch customer iteration, and maintain high code quality and accountability.

Develop high-quality, resilient software across Ubuntu and the open source stack, from Linux systems and firmware to cloud, containers, and desktop applications. Contribute to product roadmaps, user experience, code reviews, issue resolution, security, and enterprise requirements. Collaborate remotely with global engineering teams and the open source community, while building expertise in programming languages and Linux systems. Attend international company sprints twice yearly.

Develop and maintain security/networking software in C/C++ on Unix/Linux throughout the full development lifecycle. Work on TCP/IP and multithreaded applications, debug with Linux tools, collaborate with global engineering and product teams, and apply strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Develop cross-platform desktop and full-stack web applications (Electron, React/Node.js), implement networking and telephony protocols (VoIP/SIP, XMPP, WebRTC), integrate audio/video codecs, and work with cloud services. Own assigned tasks, troubleshoot complex issues, and collaborate with global engineering teams to deliver secure networking/security features.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead technical strategies, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and develop consumer banking solutions using various technologies.

Lead and deliver your team's quarterly goals, guide engineers through ambiguous problems, and collaborate with product, design, and analytics. Identify and resolve technical, process, and operational issues, support availability and on-call, enforce code and design quality, and mentor team members to grow talent and maintain high engineering standards.

Lead delivery of ML feature platform initiatives: design, build, and operate backend systems for feature creation, storage, backfilling and serving. Collaborate with product, design, and analytics, own quarterly goals, improve platform reliability and code quality, mentor engineers, and support on-call and operational monitoring.

Develop scalable web applications using React and Next.js, implement backend solutions in Python, maintain DevOps practices, and collaborate with AI/ML teams to deploy applications.

Build scalable backend systems, develop LLM agents, and ensure fast adaptation in a dynamic environment at Sentra.

Build and operate internal AI platform services: chat/agent frontends, retrieval over code/docs, AI-native developer workflows, sandboxed execution, model routing, telemetry, and compliance-minded design for regulated aerospace environments.

The Backend Software Engineer will develop and maintain backend systems for data processing related to coffee farming, utilizing Python and PostgreSQL. Responsibilities include feature development, problem-solving, and adapting systems to regulatory changes while ensuring system resilience.

Lead development of robotic simulators, motion planning and collision-checking (ROS 2 / MoveIt2), and perception components (object detection, pose/point-cloud processing). Write production-quality C++/Python with unit/integration tests, debug software-hardware integration, set architecture and testing standards, and mentor junior engineers.