Top Software Engineer Jobs in Ottawa

Develop and own critical CRM systems in a serverless microservices environment. Build customer, property, ticketing, business operations, contract management, automation, and notification features using TypeScript across frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Collaborate with designers, developers, product managers, and QA specialists to create user-friendly interfaces and scalable cloud solutions.

As a Software Developer II, you will design and implement software systems, collaborate with peers, and improve product capabilities using various technologies, particularly TypeScript and Python.

Develop and maintain automated test frameworks, suites, and cases for QNX embedded software. Validate releases on real hardware, debug software-hardware interactions, investigate root causes, manage defects, execute regression testing, and create test plans and reports. Maintain automation lab infrastructure and collaborate with development and integration teams to improve coverage and product quality. The role requires Python, C, Shell, Linux, networking, embedded testing, CI/CD, and modern development tools.

Join as the founding full-stack engineer to extend a TypeScript React/Next.js prototype, design product features, integrate AI/OCR, write tests and infrastructure, talk to users, and iterate quickly to drive growth.

Develop browser engine experiments and implement deep changes across subsystems such as DOM, layout, rendering, JavaScript runtimes, accessibility, or networking. Investigate performance, correctness, compatibility, and browser state exposure; prototype capabilities for programmatic web interaction; instrument and profile behavior; and validate results through reproducible measurements and tests. Collaborate with technical leads while exploring new browser products and AI-agent workflows.

Lead backend engineering work for Affirm’s lakehouse infrastructure, delivering reliable, scalable distributed data systems. Own quarterly goals, guide engineers through ambiguous problems, collaborate with product and analytics stakeholders, improve technical standards, monitor system availability, support on-call operations, and mentor team members. The role focuses on large-scale data platforms and technologies including Iceberg, Flink, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Build and maintain secure, scalable APIs and infrastructure for an AI-powered fintech platform. Develop features across the stack, integrate third-party APIs, deploy infrastructure with Terraform, apply compliance and security practices, and support customers as a technical point of contact. The role involves close collaboration with the CTO in a greenfield, early-stage startup environment.

Design, scale, and operate backend APIs and real-time services powering sportsbook and casino mobile and web applications. Own features end to end, including API contracts, performance, monitoring, testing, production support, and client-side changes when needed. Collaborate with iOS, Android, and web teams, use AI coding agents, write technical documentation, mentor engineers, and lead initiatives from proposal through release.

Design, develop, and deliver firmware, microcode, device drivers, embedded Linux builds, and control software for high-performance datacenter systems. Own products throughout their lifecycle, including architecture, hardware and silicon bring-up, debugging, validation, automation, customer trials, field support, and production sustainability. Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering and business teams in an in-person, fast-paced environment.

Designs, architects, builds, deploys, and supports secure, scalable SaaS solutions using AI-native development practices. Leads adoption of coding agents, AI-assisted testing, code review, agent workflows, and automated quality processes. Owns production reliability, performance, monitoring, incident response, security, and compliance with CJIS requirements. Mentors engineers, collaborates cross-functionally, drives technical innovation, and delivers measurable customer value across public safety products.

Design and lead scalable, highly available distributed systems using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, and event-driven technologies. Remain hands-on with coding, system optimization, testing, observability, and production troubleshooting. Integrate AI capabilities such as LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, and orchestration frameworks into enterprise applications. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence architecture across teams, and guide adoption of reliable, secure, and cost-effective engineering practices.

Design, build, scale, and operate high-volume payment APIs and distributed systems serving global traffic. Lead complex engineering projects from requirements through production, improve performance, observability, reliability, fault tolerance, and security, and participate in on-call incident response. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and mentor engineers through technical reviews, documentation, and guidance.

Build and improve full-stack healthcare software in collaboration with clinicians, operators, and product managers. The role involves understanding business and user needs, making independent technical and product decisions, developing scalable distributed systems, adopting AI, writing tests, documenting implementations, and maintaining development practices that support rapid, high-quality iteration.

Architect, build, and operate Kong Konnect’s cloud-hosted control plane, including scalable microservices, low-latency APIs, automated testing, observability, and production reliability. The role requires Go, relational data modeling, Kubernetes, containerized environments, proxy technologies, API lifecycle expertise, and participation in an on-call rotation. Engineers collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable SaaS platform capabilities.

Build and maintain full-stack healthcare software that supports primary care, chronic condition management, and improved patient outcomes. Collaborate with clinicians, operators, product managers, and users to understand needs, make technical and product decisions, develop features, refactor distributed systems, adopt AI, and maintain testing, documentation, scalability, and development practices.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable billing and payment-processing systems using C# and PHP. Lead architecture, code reviews, mentoring, CI/CD improvements, monitoring, security, database optimization, and production issue resolution. Use Claude and Cursor daily while validating AI-generated code for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability. Collaborate with product, development, and QA teams to deliver reliable, PCI DSS-compliant software.

Develop and maintain Firefox OS integrations across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Responsibilities include debugging defects, building features, maintaining installers and updaters, addressing security and memory-safety concerns, reviewing code, providing technical direction, and collaborating with distributed engineering teams.

Develop, test, maintain, debug, and optimize embedded software for edge devices under experienced-engineer guidance. Collaborate with hardware and software teams on integration, participate in code reviews, use version control, document work, and learn embedded development tools, protocols, and best practices through onboarding and mentorship.

Develop and maintain Cisco Nexus Dashboard’s Kubernetes-based infrastructure platform. Responsibilities include cluster lifecycle management, microservices development, backup and restore, observability, anomaly detection, audit logging, centralized authentication and authorization, certificate management, scalability, and performance optimization. The role also requires designing robust software test plans and collaborating across engineering teams to support highly available data center services.

You will design and implement IAM systems, own authentication and authorization, and ensure secure-by-default principles across Hadrian's API platform.

Develop and lead frontend platform engineering for native and hybrid mobile applications. Build reusable, well-tested Android and iOS SDK components, contribute to architecture and system design, collaborate with product and engineering teams, own customer-facing deliverables, and identify product improvements while maintaining strong engineering standards.

Supports a business-critical warehouse management system in a 24x7 environment. Responsibilities include application maintenance, upgrades, incident resolution, infrastructure and database administration, SQL performance optimization, monitoring, integrations, change and release management, vendor coordination, SOX compliance, disaster recovery testing, documentation, and continuous service improvement.

Provides 24x7 production and application support for a business-critical warehouse management system. Responsibilities include monitoring, incident resolution, troubleshooting, SQL and database support, application maintenance, upgrades, release testing, infrastructure coordination, documentation, SOX compliance, and disaster recovery testing. The role collaborates with infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, SAP, middleware, database, and vendor teams to maintain application availability, security, and performance.

Design and develop highly available, fault-tolerant distributed edge computing platforms using Go, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud technologies. Build scalable APIs, troubleshoot complex systems, conduct code reviews, optimize performance and security, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, contribute to planning, and maintain technical documentation.

Build GitLab code security capabilities spanning dependency analysis, SBOM and lockfile parsing, vulnerability detection, AI-assisted analyzers, and automated dependency remediation. Design evaluation harnesses, package analyzers for CI and AI workflows, improve security report accuracy, and extend ecosystem coverage. Own initiatives from design through delivery, mentor engineers, collaborate across product and engineering teams, document systems, and participate in on-call support.