Backend Jobs in Canada

There are 1,106 open Backend jobs in Canada on freehire right now. 355 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are api, cloud and ai.

Salary

CurrencyPeriod25thMedian75thPostings
CADyearCA$135,000CA$166,250CA$191,100223
USDyear$161,625$186,350$197,50030

From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.

Most requested skills

  • api 59%
  • cloud 46%
  • ai 42%
  • java 36%
  • aws 36%
  • ci-cd 34%
  • python 32%
  • rest 29%

How the work is done

  • Remote 195 · 18%
  • Hybrid 169 · 15%
  • Onsite 22 · 2%

Visa sponsorship offered in 67% of the 105 postings that state a position on it.

Seniority

  • Senior 551
  • Staff 89
  • Lead 42
  • Principal 14
  • C-level 11
  • Junior 11

Who is hiring

  • 1000+ employees 227
  • 501-1000 employees 79
  • 51-200 employees 48
  • 11-50 employees 15
  • 201-500 employees 4
  • 1-10 employees 2
1,106 jobs
OX Security
3 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Agentic Pentest

Open 61d RemoteNorth AmericaSenior
Canada

Designs and builds scalable, secure backend systems and APIs for an AI-driven cybersecurity platform that detects vulnerabilities in AI-generated code across the software development lifecycle, using cloud and runtime context.

ai api aws cloud cloud-security +11 skills
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OX Security
3 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Experience Group

Open 56d RemoteNorth AmericaSenior
Canada

Senior backend engineer building scalable, AI-driven cybersecurity tools for the AI era using Node.js, TypeScript, and cloud platforms like AWS/Azure/GCP.

agile ai api api-design aws +12 skills
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HelloFresh
5 hours ago

Staff Backend Product Engineer, Operations Technology (all genders)

Open 46d HybridNorth AmericaStaff
Canada

Staff backend engineer at HelloFresh designing and scaling food-systems infrastructure in Python, Go, or Kotlin, while partnering with business teams to deliver menu operations and xPS migrations.

agentic-ai ai cad claude-code distributed-systems +4 skills
180 000 – 215 000 CAD
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience

Open 80d RemoteNorth America, UKFull-timeStaff H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Build and improve GitLab’s internal developer tools and testing infrastructure using Ruby and Go, reducing friction in CI/CD pipelines and shaping engineering culture across globally distributed teams.

ai ci-cd developer-experience devops devsecops +2 skills
131 600 – 282 000 $
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation (Golang)

Open 54d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Build and maintain a unified analytics instrumentation platform in Go that collects product usage and billing data across GitLab’s SaaS and Self-Managed environments to inform product strategy and billing accuracy.

ai analytics clickhouse cloud cloud-native +12 skills
117 600 – 252 000 $
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Backend Engineer (Ruby), AI Engineering: Agent Observability

Open 54d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-time H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Build backend features for AI agent observability and interactions in GitLab’s monolith and AI gateway using Ruby on Rails, GraphQL/REST APIs, and PostgreSQL.

agentic-ai ai api backbone data-modeling +13 skills
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

Open 41d RemoteNorth America, UKFull-timeSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab designs and improves cloud-native deployment guidance and ephemeral environments to make GitLab easier to deploy and validate across environments.

ai cloud cloud-native devsecops gitlab +1 skills
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Engineering: Chat

Open 40d RemoteNorth America, UKFull-timeSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Builds and maintains the backend AI infrastructure for GitLab Duo Chat, integrating large language models and multi-agent flows using Python, LangGraph, and Ruby on Rails to power secure, agentic chat experiences.

agentic-ai ai api data-modeling devsecops +13 skills
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Intermediate Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness

Open 28d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-time H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Build backend systems that embed platform-readiness checks into GitLab’s dev lifecycle, using TypeScript/Node, Python, or Go and agentic workflows to catch compatibility issues early.

agentic-ai ai api automation ci-cd +13 skills
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness

Open 28d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Build AI-driven automation to validate software features across GitLab’s four deployment platforms, embedding platform-readiness checks into the DevSecOps workflow.

agentic-ai ai api automation ci-cd +11 skills
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity

Open 25d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Senior Backend Engineer builds AI-powered automation to remove friction in software development workflows, diagnosing and resolving issues like slow code reviews and manual releases using reliable agentic systems in Go/Rust/Python.

agentic-ai ai automation devsecops distributed-systems +4 skills
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity

Open 25d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Staff Backend Engineer defining and building agentic systems to automate parts of GitLab’s DevSecOps workflow while keeping humans in the loop, using Go/Rust/Python.

agentic-ai ai devsecops distributed-systems gitlab +6 skills
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Staff Backend Engineer (Ruby), AI Engineering: DAP Repository Flows

Open 23d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Staff Backend Engineer builds AI-powered automation for GitLab’s Duo Agent Platform, focusing on Ruby/Rails systems that onboard users and run autonomous agents on codebases.

agentic-ai ai automation devsecops gitlab +4 skills
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Plan: Portfolio Experience

Open 21d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Senior Backend Engineer builds and optimizes GitLab’s work-item platform, focusing on Ruby, PostgreSQL, GraphQL/REST APIs, and real-time features to serve millions of users.

ai api clickhouse devsecops elasticsearch +8 skills
139 200 – 235 200 $
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer, AMER

Open 16d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Build and evolve GitLab’s backend systems, shaping architecture for a global DevSecOps platform used by millions while integrating agentic AI into production workflows.

agentic-ai ai api clickhouse devsecops +7 skills
139 200 – 235 200 $
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer (Python), Agent Developer: Flow Components

RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Develops reusable AI-driven workflow components (Flow Registry) in Python for GitLab’s Duo Agent Platform, bridging backend services and frontend tools while ensuring scalability, security, and cross-stack collaboration.

agentic-ai ai cli data-modeling devsecops +12 skills
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GitLab Backed by Y Combinator
8 hours ago

Backend Engineer, AI Engineering: Duo Chat

RemoteNorth AmericaFull-time H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.

Builds and maintains the backend infrastructure for GitLab Duo Chat, an AI-powered conversational platform, focusing on Python-based agentic workflows (Flow Registry, LangGraph) and Rails integration. Core tasks include developing scalable, secure features, optimizing performance, and collaborating cross-functionally to enhance AI-driven chat capabilities.

agentic-ai ai api conversational-ai devsecops +9 skills
115 200 – 194 400 $
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nabucasa
9 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

Open 61d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior
Canada

Build and maintain backend services for Home Assistant Cloud using Elixir, focusing on privacy, scalability, and reliable cloud infrastructure for a smart home platform.

authentication automation cad cloud elixir +8 skills
105 000 – 129 100 CAD
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Aduna Global
12 hours ago

Senior Backend Performance Engineer (Hybrid Montréal)

North AmericaSenior
Canada

The Senior Backend Performance Engineer will focus on production profiling, service stability across multi-CSP environments, and latency optimization. The role involves building observability tools and managing critical incidents in a hybrid work model in Montréal.
Yoush Consulting
12 hours ago

Back End Developer

North America
Canada

This role involves developing and maintaining backend web applications for cancer informatics and medical image analysis. The developer will work with Python, relational databases, and containerized environments to build and support healthcare-focused software.

aws azure ci-cd cloud cpp +8 skills
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