Top Software Engineer Jobs in Ottawa

Develop and maintain Kubernetes Operators for Camunda’s SaaS platform, supporting customer clusters, cloud infrastructure automation, multi-cloud and multi-region deployments across AWS and GCP. Collaborate across teams to deliver secure, reliable features, improve code quality, participate in on-call and third-level support, and promote automation and operational ownership.

Build and maintain full-stack healthcare software that supports clinicians and improves patient care. Collaborate with operators, clinicians, product managers, and users to understand business needs, shape solutions, and deliver features. Responsibilities include making technical and product decisions, developing scalable distributed systems, writing tests, documenting implementations, adopting AI agents, and improving development practices.

Maintain and improve Firefox Graphics code covering rendering, compositing, images, canvas, and WebGL. Diagnose and fix cross-platform graphics issues, resolve bugs and regressions, maintain tests, review code, and manage incoming issues. The role requires strong C++ or Rust skills, graphics framework and GPU architecture knowledge, multithreaded debugging and optimization ability, and independent technical leadership in a mature codebase.

Maintains and improves Firefox’s Layout code across CSS, page layout, APZ, text, and images. Responsibilities include fixing bugs and regressions, keeping tests green, diagnosing cross-platform issues, conducting code reviews, handling routine upkeep, and participating in planning and web-compatibility meetings. The role requires independent technical leadership in a large, mature, multithreaded C++ codebase.

Lead design and delivery of cost-visibility and optimization tooling across cloud and AI infrastructure. Set technical strategy, build automation and monitoring, collaborate cross-functionally, ensure operational readiness, and mentor engineers to scale FinOps capabilities and self-service cost systems.

Develop and optimize QNX kernel and core operating system technologies, including memory management, process management, system services, scheduling, concurrency, and performance. Provide technical leadership, design system specifications, implement reliable C code, create automated unit tests, troubleshoot hardware and software issues, and improve system security, safety, scalability, and performance. Collaborate on architecture, code reviews, planning, and embedded real-time systems development.

Design, develop, and maintain full-stack features for a cloud-native digital forensics SaaS platform using React, TypeScript, C#, and .NET. Build case management capabilities, APIs, automated tests, and scalable services. Collaborate with Product, UX, and Engineering teams, contribute to architecture and operational excellence, participate in code reviews, and mentor team members. Candidates must reside in Canada.

Lead architecture, build, test, and deploy scalable web and mobile features. Design integrations and onboarding infrastructure, act as a product partner, work directly with customers for custom integrations, leverage LLMs/AI tooling to accelerate delivery, and improve reliability, observability, and performance while mentoring teammates.

Lead backend-focused software architecture and development for data-intensive products, including experimentation platforms, near-real-time ingestion, AI workflows, integrations, APIs, and distributed systems. Partner with product, design, and data science teams to translate ambiguous needs into scalable production solutions. Contribute across frontend, pipelines, and infrastructure, while mentoring engineers, conducting design reviews, and setting technical direction.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Northbeam’s data ingestion and integration platform. Lead event-driven and batch processing decisions, establish standards for observability, freshness, and failure handling, and guide cross-functional platform design. Mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, influence teams without direct authority, and drive foundational platform improvements. The role requires deep Python and SQL expertise, cloud data warehouse experience, scalable API-based ETL design, orchestration, and containerized infrastructure experience.

Senior Software Engineer to design and implement C++/Python software, accelerate workloads with CUDA, develop and maintain Linux kernel modules and system services, optimize system and GPU performance, manage Linux systems, mentor junior engineers, and integrate AI technologies across products.

Develop and maintain ChartCheck, a full-stack application supporting radiotherapy plan checking and clinical workflows. Responsibilities include building performant WPF desktop software, DICOM integrations, image and dose visualization, DVH evaluation, architecture, testing, code reviews, and technical decision-making. The role collaborates with physicists and product leaders, mentors teammates, and requires front-end and back-end development across C#, .NET, JavaScript, databases, and cloud systems.

Lead the technical vision and development of Elasticsearch’s core search infrastructure, including indexing, retrieval, query execution, and relevance. Research search algorithms and data structures, contribute to Lucene, guide long-term roadmaps, mentor engineers, and collaborate across distributed teams. Build and optimize high-performance distributed search systems while serving as a technical authority in key Elasticsearch domains.

Lead the technical design and delivery of banking features at Cash App, collaborating across teams, driving architecture improvements, and mentoring engineers.

Lead full-stack engineering for card acquisition and onboarding across mobile, web, and backend. Define technical strategy, deliver quarterly goals, mentor engineers, ensure operational reliability (monitoring, on-call, CI/CD), collaborate with product/design/analytics, and drive quality, experimentation, and scalable backend systems.

Lead design and delivery of backend risk systems to detect and prevent fraud, manage credit and market risk, and protect users. Drive architecture for distributed, high-availability services, partner with Data Science/ML and product teams, build AI-native detection and response systems, mentor engineers, own operational excellence, and lead incident response and post-mortems.

The Staff Software Engineer will develop and execute technical strategies for Cash App Banking, lead architectural decisions, and mentor engineers, focusing on innovative financial solutions.

Develop experimental AI techniques for agentic marketing applications, especially image and video generation. Build proofs of concept, autonomous evaluation and improvement systems, realistic AI-generated video, and brand-aligned creative generation workflows. The role requires strong quantitative and probabilistic thinking, backend architecture skills, creativity with LLM applications, and product intuition.

Build and scale distributed backend services for growth infrastructure (notifications, referrals, targeting, lifecycle communications, ML ranking). Design resilient service-oriented systems on cloud, ship well-tested production code, run growth experiments/A-B tests, improve developer tooling and shared platform capabilities, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver measurable acquisition and retention impact.

Lead frontend engineering for Affirm’s consumer web experiences using React and TypeScript. Own quarterly team goals, deliver major product features, modernize web architecture and design systems, and develop tools such as codemods and AI agent skills. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams; establish quality standards; monitor availability and metrics; support on-call operations; resolve technical issues; and mentor engineers.

Own and develop Arena’s public web surfaces, including the blog, marketing pages, and leaderboard UI. Build with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Sanity CMS, and the company design system. Improve performance, accessibility, SEO, structured data, internationalization, and data visualization. Create CMS models and publishing tools that enable marketing teams to ship independently while collaborating closely with designers, marketers, and engineers.

Develop and optimize automated tests for QNX Power Management technologies. Responsibilities include creating test frameworks and cases, executing test suites on embedded hardware, debugging failures, performing root-cause analysis, documenting defects, verifying fixes, maintaining test labs, preparing test plans and reports, and collaborating with software developers and test engineers to support reliable software releases.

Own Aleph’s shared AI foundation, including model selection and routing, proxy infrastructure, context management, tool design, and evaluation systems. Ship production agentic features using prompt engineering, caching, parallel tool calls, and subagents. Build observability for agent performance, collaborate with customers and finance experts to define quality standards, and drive adoption of reliable AI systems across product teams.

Own major product surfaces across Aleph’s FP&A platform, leading features from customer discovery through launch and iteration. Build performant spreadsheet-grade interfaces over large financial datasets, design robust data models and APIs, develop AI-native features involving orchestration, tool calls, and retrieval, and improve engineering standards through high-quality code and reviews. The role requires strong full-stack fundamentals, customer engagement, technical leadership, pragmatism, and experience building complex B2B products.

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.