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Lead Senior Sr Software Engineer 2c Backend in Canada

462 active opportunities · Updated October 2026

Explore current lead senior sr software engineer 2c backend jobs across Canada. Filter by work mode, employment type, experience, department, date posted and distance.

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Hiring trend

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Remote options

4.4%

Share of matching jobs listed as remote

Typical salary

$202.5K – $202.5K/yr

Based on 49 salary observations

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📍 British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -100%

From C$107K/yr

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Location Details: At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.​ Remote: This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. About the Team Global Compute builds and operates the core cloud infrastructure that engineering teams rely on every day. We provision and manage AWS accounts across the company, operate the network backbone that connects them, and maintain the security guardrails that keep those environments safe, compliant, and scalable. We believe reliability is an engineering challenge, not an operations task. We automate repetitive work, build for scale before it becomes a problem, and invest heavily in observability to identify issues before they impact the business. What you'll get to do... Operate and scale AWS production infrastructure, owning the health of services that provision, secure, and manage accounts across GoDaddy AWS organisations. Design, build, and maintain cloud platform capabilities using Python, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and automation-first practices. Drive cost optimisation initiatives that improve efficiency and deliver measurable business impact. Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational tooling. Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response efforts, and drive long-term reliability improvements through blameless post-incident reviews. Support strategic AWS initiatives across networking, identity, governance, and multi-account architecture. Review code and designs, contribute documentation and operational runbooks, and mentor fellow engineers. Leverage AI-assisted tooling to improve engineering productivity, accelerate automation, and reduce operati

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -65.7%

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. Okta enables universal, secure access to technology for every user and organization. The Device Identity and Access team ensures that every endpoint interacting with corporate resources is trusted, healthy, and secure. Our pillar spans four domains: Device Identity, Device Authentication, Device Security Posture, and Endpoint AI Security. We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to drive our Zero Trust Authentication group. In this role, you will lead the core execution, performance, and deployment strategy for Okta’s foundational endpoint products. You will own the operational excellence of Okta Verify , FastPass , and Device Assurance , ensuring that our core passwordless authentication flows and device posture engines remain performant, secure, and incredibly easy for global enterprises to deploy at scale. This is a critical, high-impact role designed for a highly autonomous product manager. You will take on the tactical execution and smaller strategic investments for our endpoint authenticators, acting as the team's operational anchor so that our senior product leaders can continuously expand our strategic frontiers. What you will own You will bridge user experience and deep systems engineering to ensure our core authentication products scale reliably for millions of global users. Core Device Assurance Execution: Own the roadmap for our baseline security posture checks (such as OS version validation, disk encryption, and firewall status). You will m

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📍 BC, Canada· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -87.3%

From C$196K/yr

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We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview The Marketing Enablement & Technology (MET) team sits within Instacart's Marketing organization, building the systems, APIs, and data pipelines powering Instacart's Paid Marketing channels—one of our most substantial growth levers. Operating at the intersection of Marketing, Product, and Engineering, we own the platforms behind campaign feeds, audience targeting, event pipelines, and QA automation. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Paid MarTech pod—driving the team's technical roadmap, making key architectural decisions for reusability and scalability, and enhancing team productivity through process evolution and tooling improvements. You'll lead cross-team initiatives, partner directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on strategic decisions, and serve as a domain expert for marketing technology a

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -91.5%

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! As a Senior Security Engineer you will: Serve as trusted advisor to team’s leadership and partner teams by clearly articulating business risks associated with security issues Lead security operation functions – including vulnerability management, SAST, DAST, detection engineering, and incident response – in CI/CD and cloud-native production environments Integrate security into our applications throughout the software development lifecycle Collaborate with product and development teams, driving the success of larger projects to ensure that software is built and deployed securely without compromising agility and speed Driving and supporting bug bounty program, application security reviews and threat modeling, including code review and dynamic testing Assess and integrate security tools to automate and scale security processes, i.e: evaluate open-source vs vendor solutions Gather and analyze security metrics to address security issues with cross-team dependencies Be a problem solver who is empathetic to developer concerns and will employ constructive and flexible approach to building innovative solutions You may be a good fit if: 5

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📍 Canada· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -91.5%

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? As Cohere continues to grow, the size and complexity of our programs has continued increasing over time. To help us manage this, we are looking to bring in exceptional Technical Program Managers (TPM) to manage this! At Cohere, TPMs are pivotal to our success, being seen as operational experts specializing in cross-functional efforts. Great TPMs at Cohere are well-rounded, executing with precision at the tactical level, while partnering with senior leaders and shaping the big picture at a strategic level, and the opportunities are endless in growing the scale and impact of their work. Cohere’s TPMs are often described by their stakeholders as organized, execution-oriented, pragmatic, and adaptable to the needs of the company and the programs they lead. As a reward for the depth and breadth of expertize that you bring to the table, you will get to work alongside some of the most talented engineers in the world on building cutting edge AI technology. No day will be the same as the one before, and the dynamic high growth environment will be absolutely perfect for anyone excited about solving novel problems, bringing

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📍 Washington, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -65.7%

From C$176K/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. COMPANY DESCRIPTION: Okta is the foundation for secure connections between people and technology. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Okta allows people to access applications on any device at any time, while allowing for strong security protection. The Okta service integrates directly with an organization’s existing directories and identity systems, as well as 6,500+ applications. Because Okta runs on an integrated platform, organizations can implement Okta quickly at large scale and low total cost. Thousands of customers, including Adobe, Allergan, Chiquita, LinkedIn, and Western Union, trust Okta to help their organizations work faster, boost revenue, and stay secure. To learn more about Okta, visit https://www.okta.com . JOB PURPOSE: In this role, you will be tasked with providing hands-on implementation and deployment services to our customers. We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and hands-on leader who can rapidly learn the Okta platform, our technology and the value proposition that we bring to customers of all sizes. You will lead multiple concurrent customer deployment projects with the number one goal to ensure long-term customer success. Additionally you will engage with the full Customer Success team in order to assure a smooth transition post-deployment to the support/maintenance phases. Finally, you will also be responsible for the continuous improvement of delivery processes and m

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📍 Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -100%

From C$128.5K/yr

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Location Details: At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.​ This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Join our team When GoDaddy's customers are considering a new venture, it often starts with a name. The Search Results team (SERP) plays a key role in that mission by building the discovery experience that helps customers find the right domain name and products for their idea. We're a small team that moves quickly, holds a high bar for craft, and ships work that impacts millions of customers. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help shape our search and discovery experiences. This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You’ll lead by example through the quality of your code, the decisions you make, and the way you help others succeed. You’ll have opportunities to lead projects, influence technical direction, mentor peers, and speak up when you see a better path. What you'll get to do... Build and ship frontend experiences that help customers find the right domain, including match quality, smart alternatives, favorites, and AI-enabled experiences Lead projects from problem definition through technical design, implementation, launch, measurement, and production ownership Improve how the team ships by building internal tools, automation, and reusable engineering patterns Your experience should include... 7+ years of professional software development experience Strong proficiency building modern web applications with React, JavaScript, and Node.js Practical experience with deployment, CI/CD, observability, and production ownership Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar tools wi

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📍 Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -100%

From C$137K/yr

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Location Details: Remote - Canada (BC or ON) At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.​ This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands. Join our team GoDaddy is expanding its data and AI capabilities while strengthening the governance, security, privacy, and compliance foundations needed to support responsible growth. As data usage and AI adoption accelerate, we are building scalable governance and control frameworks that enable innovation while maintaining strong accountability, audit readiness, and regulatory compliance. As the Senior Technical Program Manager - Data, AI Governance and SOX Compliance , you will lead cross-functional programs that improve data governance, AI governance, access accountability, and SOX compliance across the business. Partnering with engineering, data, security, finance, legal, audit, and compliance teams, you will drive strategy, execution, and operating mechanisms that make governance and controls visible, scalable, and embedded into daily operations. This is a high-impact role for a program leader who thrives in ambiguous environments. They can influence various interest groups and are passionate about helping teams move faster. They focus on growing transparency, strengthening controls, and boosting confidence in managing data, AI, and compliance risks. What you'll get to do... Lead complex, cross-functional programs spanning data, AI, security, compliance, audit, and finance, driving initiatives from problem definition through rollout, adoption, and measurable business outcomes. Develop and manage program plans, governance

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -90.9%

From C$107.1K/yr

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This posting is for a future vacancy. We’re looking for a Senior Account Executive, Enterprise Sales to help us develop and close new business with larger enterprise customers within our landmark industries. You will work in a fast paced sales environment selling Hootsuite solutions to prospective customers. This role is a full sales cycle role from opportunity creation to close. You will be responsible for owning your own pipeline and generating outbound opportunities with companies that could benefit from Hootsuite as their social media management partner. This is a hybrid role and is open to applicants located within commuting distance of our Vancouver or Toronto offices. In this role, you will report to the Manager, Enterprise Sales. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Successfully acquire new enterprise customers within our landmark industries in order to achieve and exceed individual quota targets. Develop and execute an industry-specific account growth strategy in order to identify, generate and develop a net new sales pipeline. Take ownership of your quarterly target by crafting and executing a strategy in order to identify, generate and develop net new sales pipeline and achieve/exceed quota targets. Accurately forecast sales activity and revenue attainment. Lead longer end to end sales cycles from value creation to negotiation and closing, and present the value of our solutions to senior and C-suite prospective customers. Lead strategic, high-impact conversations that uncover business priorities, align solutions to executive objectives, and drive long-term partnerships. Manage complex, global evaluations and manage stakeholders in different regions and departments. Proactively and strategically seek out market information and understand the product-market fit in order to effectively develop rapport with customers. As a subject matter expert in Social Media Management and in our customers unique industry, advise and recommend relevant solut

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📍 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -90.9%

From C$115.4K/yr

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ROLE DESCRIPTION: We’re looking for a Senior Platform Backend Developer who can help us support the development organization to deliver value to customers in a reliable, efficient, and safe manner. You’ll be working in a focused team that owns one or more pieces of the production application environment and the developer experience, you will own and deliver in service of quarterly goals on the team. ABOUT THE TEAM: This role is within our Backend Platform team. The team primarily uses Go, Scala, and PHP and has expertise in technologies such as Kafka, various AWS services, and some infrastructure-as-code tools. Your primary focus will be on developing services and tools for our product development teams as well as modernizing our existing platform. Based out of British Columbia, you will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development, DevOps. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services, and glue scripts Responsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based platform Participate in a flexible on-call rotation Lead by owning project milestones, epics or features Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks Design and build our infrastructure platform Identify and implement new platform features Research and evaluate new technologies Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features Operate our developer experience and production application environments Diagnose and repair our distributed systems Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work Enable development teams Provide executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle Collaborate with others across the orga

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📍 Ontario, British Columbia, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -90.9%

From C$98.4K/yr

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In the role of Senior Salesforce Developer, you will play a pivotal role within the Business Technology team, providing essential support across the Enterprise. Your responsibilities will involve creating highly secure, scalable, adaptable, and high-performing solutions. Reporting to the Director, you will work closely with product and technology teams to design, develop, test, iterate, and deploy new features, integrate systems, enhance existing features, and offer operational support. Additionally, you will independently conduct code reviews and guide junior team members towards improved design and the adoption of clean, standardized coding practices. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Build solutions in Salesforce.com leveraging Force.com, APEX, Lightning Web Components, Web Services, and APIs. Provide expertise and recommendation on when to use configuration vs. code vs off-the- shelf products. Support cross systems integrations through developing and configuring tools across native Salesforce ecosystem as well as other cloud technologies. Partner with bu siness owners to deliver tailored solutions that support business requirements, create a superlative user experience, and drive tangible business value. Actively engage and share insights in the planning and analysis of requirements for system enhancements, translating requirements into well-architecture solutions that best use the Salesforce platform and products. Analyze Salesforce tech debt, propose design and implement solutions. Function as technical lead: Provide Recommendations on configuration vs code Audit and document existing processes and technical designs, and identify areas for improvement Manage and provide support for other sales tools (e.g. LeanData, Gong and SalesLoft) Distill complex technical solutions into layman’s terms and communicate these in a clear and understandable way to stakeholders Function as Senior team member with the ability to guide and mentor more junior team members as it r

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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Employee Applicant Privacy Notice Who we are: Shape a brighter financial future with us. Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The role The Data Science team is seeking a Senior Manager who will help support growth in our SIPS businesses by improving SoFi’s ability to execute with data. This is an exciting role for someone to leverage their Analytical, Engineering, and Management skills to lead a team of Data Scientists with high visibility and impact. You will serve as a data leader, balancing urgent requests and delivering high quality projects to key stakeholders, through a clear and repeatable data informed approach. You will create a culture of strong technical ownership, deliver impact with prioritization, support the growth of individual contributors, and hold the team accountable with high standards. You are expected to work cross-functionally, including: engineering, product managers, lifecycle marketing, data science, design, operations, finance, risk, legal, compliance, and executive teams to set business objectives, define product strategy, prioritize features, and execute on them. What you’ll do: Manage a team of Data Scientists supporting SoFi’s Checking and Savings, Invest, Credit Card, Protect, and Lantern businesses Collaborate with senior leaders and other stakeholders to identify and prioritize Data Science initiatives Set high standards for quality and on-time delivery. Recruit, grow, and reta

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📍 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada· Full-time
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From C$230K/yr

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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Geometry team, you will drive foundational algorithms for real-time 3D content creation and editing that power the Roblox platform. Working in a small, autonomous team, you will solve novel math computational problems and deliver immersive, expressive creative tools to millions of users. At this level, you are expected to own pod-level or team-level projects from inception to implementation, provide technical direction to junior collaborators, and contribute to the team’s long-term technical strategy. You Will: Own End-to-End Development: Lead complex, team-level projects through the full development lifecycle, from research and prototyping to production deployment and maintenance. Architect Robust Solutions: Develop efficient algorithms for geometry processing (e.g., convex decomposition, mesh partitioning, boolean operations) that support real-time simulation, collision detection, and performance requirements across all platforms. Mentor and Lead: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of high standards, code quality, and collaborative architectural discussions. Solve Computational Problems: Tackle discrete m

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