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Lead Senior Backend Software Engineer Application Development in Toronto

132 active opportunities · Updated October 2026

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+12.5%

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Remote options

2.7%

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Typical salary

C$108K – C$108K/yr

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%

From C$140K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta is looking for a talented Staff Product Designer (you!) who shares our passion for bringing simple, yet powerful product experiences to our enterprise admins. At Okta, we're building a world where anyone can safely use any technology, and we're specifically focused on protecting the future of work. We bring simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, promising to not only protect the identities of our customers' workforce and users, but to ask, “what more can we make possible?” Which is where you come in! ​​As a Staff Product Designer for Okta, you’ll work with a globally distributed design team to apply your craft and expertise on a range of products and services. Our culture provides the opportunity to explore the technologies we’re researching and investing in. Some of your work will be functional, practical user experience design, where you will help our design team drive cohesive user experience across Okta’s portfolio of products. Other work will be speculative, generative explorations that you carry out in collaboration and partnership across the organization to flesh out, frame, and help prioritize solutions in an ever-evolving and complex, often ambiguous, problem space. Finer print You will lead user experience strategy and execution for our Okta Research & Development (ORD) business unit. Specifically, ORD will solve every identity use case at work – for all types of people (employees, business partners, contra

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%

From C$146K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Engineering Opportunity Reporting to the Director of Quality & Performance, this role as Engineering Manager of Performance & Resilience will drive performance and resiliency improvements for the Auth0 product at Okta. Here you'll be working with some of the most advanced technology in the space, helping to streamline and secure billions of access requests a year. In this role, you will work closely with architects, platform team members, and product engineers to build the testing infrastructure that keeps Auth0 performant at scale — including the frameworks, tooling, and realistic datasets that make that testing meaningful. The ideal candidate is passionate about software quality and architecture, a self-starter, intellectually curious, and brings deep experience with performance testing, load testing frameworks, dataset generation, performance analysis, monitoring tooling, and chaos engineering. What you’ll be doing Collaborate with architects, tech lead, product owners, security and operations engineers to implement best practices related to performance and resiliency Communicate and organize cross-team projects with high business

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -72.4%

From C$1.3M/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Safety and Customer Care (SCC) team at Lyft manages over 1.7 million monthly human and AI interactions and serves as Lyft's primary direct touchpoint with riders and drivers. We handle critical infrastructure that powers both human associates and AI agents to make riders and drivers feel safe and comfortable while riding or driving with Lyft, transforming every support interaction into a moment of genuine connection. As a Data Scientist working on Causal Inference in SCC, you'll partner with a strong team of engineers, product managers, designers, and operations leaders to deliver a personalized and exceptional experience for Lyft customers, using rigorous causal inference to guide the highest-stakes decisions we make. We're looking for a motivated and talented Data Scientist with deep causal inference expertise to join the SCC Data Science team. You'll partner closely with the area's tech lead on high-impact work spanning AI-powered support products, differentiated service, and operations optimization. The ideal candidate brings sharp applied inference intuition, a bias toward impact, and the ability to cut through ambiguity in complex problem spaces. You'll work on projects like: Design rigorous experiments and quasi-experiments to measure the causal impact of SCC product and AI-agent launches, and drive data-informed launch decisions. Build causal ML models to optimize concession budget allocation, targeting the right support credit, to the right rider or driver, at the right moment to maximize trust and business impact. Quantify the long-term effects of support-experience changes on rider and driver retention, and uncover heterogeneous treatment effects across our community. Deliver strategic insights on quality–cost tradeoffs, empowering leadership to balance service quality, coverage,

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingDemand 73/100Company trend -72.4%

From C$108K/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Marketplace teams are at the heart of our products and decision-making, owning everything from rider pricing to driver earnings, incentives, and efficient matching. We’re looking for passionate, driven engineers to build systems that empower our riders and drivers to have the best transportation experience possible through prediction, adaptivity, and personalization. We’re looking for someone who is excited about working in a fast-paced, innovative, and impactful environment to create reliable solutions to distributed computing, ML, and data problems. The Pricing team is a centerpiece of Lyft’s Marketplace org, determining prices for all rideshare products and supporting new initiatives. Rider Engagement develops rider-facing engagement levers and optimizes user pricing experience to drive both short term and long term business outcomes. We work with Product & Science to solve and implement complex pricing requirements, balancing the needs of riders, drivers, and the business goals. As an owner of one of the most critical flows in the company, you will work on a wide array of challenges such as latency-sensitive concurrency problems, large scale distributed systems, and experimentation. If you’re interested in playing a large part in demand / supply management and improving the Lyft customer experience, this could be a great fit for you. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Work closely with cross-functional teams and partner teams to develop solutions based on technology and business needs, and advance team’s goals and priorities Independently lead features from idea to positive execution and launch Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintaina

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingDemand 73/100Company trend -72.4%

From C$108K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Our mission depends on having a digital representation of the physical world - a map with all routing related (real-time) information. This is what makes Lyft different from many products: our products don’t just facilitate online interactions, they facilitate dynamic, real-world ones. Without mapping services, none of these real world interactions between people and transport can happen. The Mapping organization at Lyft has spent the last few years building up Lyft’s mapping assets and capabilities by combining many internal and external data sources and services into an increasingly powerful and mission-critical technology stack. In doing so, we’ve also enabled new user experiences and features across all of Lyft’s products, including rideshare industry leading firsts like CarPlay, Android Auto, and real-time driver feedback! We are hiring a Software Engineer to join our Mapping experiences team that builds end user features to enhance drivers and riders experience on Lyft’s platform by using our in house navigation system. We are looking for an engineer with expertise in system architecture, cross team collaboration, and experience in building scalable solutions in the cloud environments. In this role, you'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, operations, and AI/ML teams on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers with rideshare focused mapping experiences. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, as well as on call rotations Share your knowledge by giving brown ba

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -72.4%

From C$102K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Our core corporate finance functions are critical to Lyft’s success. The health and sustainability of our applications, systems, tooling and processes are critical for daily operations and for Lyft’s ability to grow. The Oracle EPM Engineer possesses both business and technical acumen. This engineering role provides support for Lyft’s Corporate consolidations systems, managing their daily performance and incidents, creating automated workflows, building customer solutions, configuring applications, providing end user training and protecting all system related information assets. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your deep expertise in FCCS, ARCS, Data Exchange and EDMCS to drive innovation across our financial consolidation, reporting, reconciliation, and planning processes. Working at the intersection of finance, technology, and strategy, you'll collaborate with key stakeholders to architect solutions that enhance accuracy, efficiency, and compliance while positioning our organization for continued growth and adaptability in a dynamic business environment. Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership & Expertise Lead all aspects of the front-end administration of the FCCS, ARCS, Data Exchange, EDMCS systems including maintaining metadata, rules, forms, developing reports, creating locations, mappings, and granting user access. Serve as the support person and subject matter expert for FCCS, Data Exchange and ARCS configurations, setting technical standards and driving continuous improvement initiatives Strong understanding of complex EPM implementation projects from conception to completion, ensuring on-time, within-budget delivery while exceeding stakeholder expectations Advanced System Configuration & Development Design and implement sophisticated FCCS business rules, incl

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -72.4%

From C$172K/yr

Quick readStrong listing-quality and freshness signals

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. We are looking for product managers who bring exceptional creative and analytical skills to drive forward a best in class product. Product management at Lyft leads the integration of engineering, data science, and design to achieve the company's vision for reinventing transportation. We are looking for entrepreneurial and passionate Product Managers to innovate and execute across a rapidly growing, fast paced company and industry from our Toronto office. Every great support experience depends on the person behind it having the right tools, context, and intelligence to solve the problem in front of them. The Platform & Data teams build the tools our human support agents work in every day—and own the data that tells Lyft, and the world, what our customers are actually experiencing. As AI rapidly changes what's possible, we're reinventing how agents work: pairing them with copilots and AI that surface the right answer instantly, take on repetitive work, and raise the quality and consistency of every interaction. At the same time, we're building the data foundation that turns millions of support contacts into an accurate, trusted view of issue types and trends—used inside the team, across the company, and in what we report externally. This role owns that mandate end to end: setting the vision and strategy, and driving execution on the hardest problems across both the platform and its data. Responsibilities: Own the vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for Lyft's agent platform and the data that powers customer care & safety reporting Define and drive how AI and copilot capabilities make agents more efficient and raise the quality and consistency of their work Lead execution on the most complex,

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -91.4%

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Stripe's Financial Connections group is building technology that expands the scope of problems we tackle beyond card payments. We aspire to enable individuals and businesses to securely share their financial data to improve their product experiences. With more high-quality customer financial data, both Stripe and our users can offer better products to their customers. We have ambitious goals to enable all global businesses to run their entire financial life cycle on Stripe, and we want you to be part of our story. Technical Operations roles in Financial Connections are a dynamic and critical component of the organization's success. As Financial Connections TechOps Manager, you will lead a team of Integration Reliability Engineers who sit at the intersection of product and platform engineers, financial partners, and AI automation. Your role is to ensure that nothing is lost in translation: setting the standard for how the team operates, where it invests, and how the operational backbone of Stripe's open banking ecosystem stays reliable at scale. What you'll do Lead integration reliability and partner operations Own the health of Financial Connections' banking integrations at the team level—define what "reliable" looks like across the partner ecosystem, set the operational bar, and hold the team to it Serve as the management escalation point for complex partner issues, coordinating across financial partners, Stripe engineering, and product lea

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -91.4%

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Billing organization at Stripe builds and operates Stripe Billing, a growing product vertical inside of Stripe. Hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes and types use Stripe Billing to collect revenue for recurring and one-time payments across a variety of different pricing models—from selling SaaS subscriptions, to orchestrating multi-stage contracts, delivering business analytics, and providing recovery and retention tools to prevent customer churn. To support even the most unique and complex business models, our technology and products must be configurable and programmable. This requires our team to innovate in how we model different types of businesses, and how we use technology to enable customers to piece together Stripe’s Billing’s platform primitives into holistic solutions that support any type of business. Through this work, Stripe Billing allows worry-free innovation and evolution of any customer’s business model. Stripe is defining the industry’s approach to Billing solutions; we’re looking for innovators to join us. What you’ll do We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team within the Stripe Billing organization. In this role, you will manage a high-performing team of engineers and partner closely with product managers and other cross-functional leaders to shape the team’s strategy and roadmap. You will excel in this role if you’re a product-focused engineering manager who can collaborate effe

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -91.4%

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team As a platform company powering businesses all over the world, Stripe processes payments, runs marketplaces, detects fraud, helps entrepreneurs start internet businesses from anywhere in the world, builds world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more. The engineering teams at Stripe work on the business logic for all of that. As a software engineering manager at Stripe, you'll lead teams that build and expand APIs, services, and experiences. You'll also work with partners to launch new markets and vertical capabilities. Stripe Terminal helps our users extend their online presence to the physical world. The mission of the Terminal team is to make it as easy for businesses to accept in-person payments as the Stripe API has done for online payments—building for Unified Commerce. With Terminal, businesses can unify their in-person and online experiences, unlocking payments use cases that are right for their business model—whether it's creating a modern retail experience, extending their website to a pop-up store, or enabling a mobile point-of-sale at their next event. Within Terminal, the Commerce team focuses on the following to help make Unified Commerce a reality for businesses across the globe. Enterprise features—on-reader forms, tipping, gift cards Payment features—DCC, surcharge, multi-capture Point-of-sale integrations—enterprise-focused integrations Low-code and no-code—solutions that will enable our users to onboard quickly What you'll

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -85.7%

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. About the team The Apps & Experiences Platform team is powering systems and services for all our user facing apps including Snowsight , Snowflake Intelligence , and new mobile apps . Our mission is to craft innovative backend services, features, tools, infrastructure, and AI tooling that bring such products to life with delightful user experiences. As part of our team, you'll dive into a mix of building & managing platform infrastructure, and building AI self-serve tools to support the platform and its developer’s needs. We're passionate about building a platform that is highly reliable, available, maintainable, and scalable. We are a high growth AI data cloud company and we are looking for exceptional talent like you to help build and grow our infrastructure to scale us to the next level. AS TECHNICAL LEAD & MANAGER FOR APPS & EXPERIENCES STORAGE TEAM, YOU WILL: Own the storage team’s technical strategy and execution , driving projects from initial idea formulation and detailed system design to high-quality implementation and successful deployment. Provide deep technical oversight by actively participating in design reviews, architecture discussions, and drilling into complex system implementations to ensure reliability and scalability. Serve as a key techn

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedDemand 73/100Company trend -85.7%
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. About the role The App Runtime team is building a platform that lets every Snowflake user go from an idea to a live, deployed web application (Node.js first) in minutes. We own the end-to-end experience of building and running apps, from Cortex AI-assisted development to deployment in a secure, scalable infrastructure. Apps built on the platform inherit Snowflake's security, governance, lineage, and access controls by default. See Deploy Faster with Snowflake Apps . As a Staff/Principal Engineer, you will shape the product and its architecture. It’s a high leverage role - you will lead a team to scale and harden an early-stage, public-preview product. Your decisions will have a long-lasting impact on the future of Snowflake as an app platform. This role requires a unique combination of deep hands-on expertise in scalability, performance and security, great product instincts, customer obsession and the organizational influence to drive cross-team programs. Responsibilities Own the roadmap and technical decisions to evolve the public-preview platform into a production-grade one, adding features like horizontal scaling, cost efficiency via suspend/resume, support for stacks beyond Node.js, and stronger access and data-governance controls Stay deeply hands-on by authoring specs

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