Backend Developer jobs in Ottawa hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $102,259/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.
agilitypr.com • HQ: Ottawa, Canada • Edge AI • Digital Marketing • 51-200 employees • Est. 2003 • Hiring 9, 6 new
HQ: Ottawa, Canada • Edge AI • Digital Marketing • 51-200 employees • Est. 2003 • Hiring 9, 6 new
Media Relations... Streamlined Agility PR Solutions helps PR and communications professionals connect with journalists, monitor earned media coverage, and prove PR impact.
ford.com • HQ: Dearborn, United States • Leasing, Auto & Equipment Finance • Automotive Manufacturing • 5000+ employees • Est. 1903 • NYSE: F • Trust A • Hiring 538, 122 new
HQ: Dearborn, United States • Leasing, Auto & Equipment Finance • Automotive Manufacturing • 5000+ employees • Est. 1903 • NYSE: F • Trust A • Hiring 538, 122 new
Ford is an American automaker founded in Dearborn in 1903 by Henry Ford, who introduced the moving assembly line and turned the car into a mass-market product. It is now organised into three businesses reported separately: Ford Blue for internal combustion vehicles, Model e for electric vehicles and software, and Ford Pro for commercial customers, which bundles vans and trucks with telematics, servicing and charging under multi-year contracts. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange and still partly controlled by the founding family through a special class of shares, its F-Series pickup has been the best selling vehicle in the United States for decades.
boschbuildingtechnologies.com • HQ: Munich, Germany • Hardware • Access Control & Alarm Systems • Building Automation & Controls • 5000+ employees • Est. 2002 • Hiring 29, 8 new
HQ: Munich, Germany • Hardware • Access Control & Alarm Systems • Building Automation & Controls • 5000+ employees • Est. 2002 • Hiring 29, 8 new
Bosch Building Technologies is a global systems integrator and technology developer that provides physical security, life safety, energy efficiency, and building automation solutions. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, the enterprise - operating as a specialized division of the Bosch Group - delivers connected infrastructure platforms encompassing IP video surveillance, access control, fire alarm detection, voice evacuation systems, and smart facility management. By combining proprietary technology, digital management software, and lifecycle engineering services, it enables commercial facilities, industrial enterprises, and public sector institutions to safeguard assets, lower carbon footprints, and optimize smart building operations.
Knak is an innovative company providing a no-code campaign creation platform designed specifically for enterprise marketing teams. It enables marketers to rapidly create and deploy professional emails and landing pages without needing technical coding skills, thereby speeding up time-to-market and allowing for greater creativity in campaign execution. Knak offers a range of features including email builder, landing page builder, dynamic content personalization, and seamless integrations with existing marketing technology.
accenture.com • HQ: Dublin, Ireland • Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) • Systems Integrators • Management Consulting • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1989 • IT services • Trust A • Hiring 4888, 190 new
HQ: Dublin, Ireland • Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) • Systems Integrators • Management Consulting • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1989 • IT services • Trust A • Hiring 4888, 190 new
Accenture is a professional services company that began as the consulting arm of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, separated as Andersen Consulting in 1989 and took its present name in 2001. It is one of the largest technology services organisations in the world, employing well over seven hundred thousand people and running strategy, consulting, technology, operations and industry work for most of the Fortune Global 500. Incorporated in Dublin and built on a delivery network concentrated in India and the Philippines, it has reoriented around cloud migration, cybersecurity and generative AI, which it now books as a distinct multi-billion dollar revenue line.
cisco.com • HQ: San Jose, United States • Endpoint Security • Observability & APM • Unified Communications • Network Security • Network Equipment • 5000+ employees • Est. 1984 • NASDAQ: CSCO • Trust A • Hiring 1218, 156 new
HQ: San Jose, United States • Endpoint Security • Observability & APM • Unified Communications • Network Security • Network Equipment • 5000+ employees • Est. 1984 • NASDAQ: CSCO • Trust A • Hiring 1218, 156 new
Cisco Systems is an American networking company founded in 1984 by Stanford computer scientists Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, and headquartered in San Jose, California. It is the largest supplier of enterprise networking equipment in the world, building the routers, switches, wireless access points and optical systems that carry traffic across corporate networks, service providers and data centres, together with the software and silicon that run them. The company has diversified heavily into security, observability through Splunk, collaboration with Webex, and AI infrastructure networking, and now earns a growing share of revenue from software subscriptions rather than hardware sales.
ibm.com • HQ: Armonk, United States • LLM & Generative AI • Quantum Science & Computing • Quantum Computing Hardware • Servers & Data Center Hardware • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1911 • Trust A • Hiring 491, 72 new
HQ: Armonk, United States • LLM & Generative AI • Quantum Science & Computing • Quantum Computing Hardware • Servers & Data Center Hardware • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1911 • Trust A • Hiring 491, 72 new
IBM is an American technology company whose roots go back to the 1911 formation of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, and which has been headquartered in Armonk, New York for decades. It defined mainframe computing, the personal computer standard and much of enterprise data processing, and today concentrates on hybrid cloud built around Red Hat, enterprise AI through the watsonx platform, consulting services and the mainframe and storage systems that still run the world's largest transaction workloads. The company also runs one of the leading quantum computing programmes and consistently ranks among the largest recipients of United States patents.
broadcom.com • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • RF & Wireless Hardware • Virtualization & Containers • Network Equipment • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1991 • Trust A • Hiring 275, 29 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • RF & Wireless Hardware • Virtualization & Containers • Network Equipment • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1991 • Trust A • Hiring 275, 29 new
Broadcom is an American semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, whose chip lineage runs back through Avago to the Hewlett-Packard components division. It designs networking switch and routing silicon that carries a large share of data centre traffic, custom AI accelerators built for hyperscale customers, plus wireless, broadband, storage and optical components. A sequence of very large acquisitions, culminating in the sixty-nine billion dollar purchase of VMware in 2023, has made infrastructure software roughly as important as chips to the group, and it is one of the most valuable listed technology companies in the world.
telesat.com • HQ: Ottawa, Canada • Space Services • Satellite Communications • 201-500 employees • Est. 1969 • NASDAQ: TSAT • Trust B • Hiring 47, 3 new
HQ: Ottawa, Canada • Space Services • Satellite Communications • 201-500 employees • Est. 1969 • NASDAQ: TSAT • Trust B • Hiring 47, 3 new
Telesat is a Canadian satellite operator listed on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker TSAT. It provides broadcast, broadband and government communications services through its fleet of geostationary satellites and is building Telesat Lightspeed, a low Earth orbit constellation for enterprise, aviation, maritime and government connectivity. The company is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
techmahindra.com • HQ: Pune, India • Professional Services • Information Technology • Systems Integrators • Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams • Est. 1986 • Hiring 227, 169 new
HQ: Pune, India • Professional Services • Information Technology • Systems Integrators • Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams • Est. 1986 • Hiring 227, 169 new
Tech Mahindra is a prominent Indian multinational information technology services and consulting enterprise specializing in digital transformation, cloud modernization, business process re-engineering, and network services. Headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra, India (with its registered office in Mumbai), the company is a flagship entity of the diversified Mahindra Group conglomerate. Established in 1986 (initially as Mahindra British Telecom), it operates across dozens of countries with a global delivery footprint serving enterprise clients in telecommunications, banking and financial services, healthcare, automotive, and retail. The organization is particularly recognized for its deep engineering heritage in telecommunications and 5G network integration, offering end-to-end solutions spanning artificial intelligence, enterprise application management, customer experience (CX), and next-generation connectivity infrastructure.
solace.com • HQ: Ottawa, Canada • Integration & API Management • Stream Processing & Real-Time Data • 201-500 employees • Est. 2001 • Trust B • Hiring 25, 2 new
HQ: Ottawa, Canada • Integration & API Management • Stream Processing & Real-Time Data • 201-500 employees • Est. 2001 • Trust B • Hiring 25, 2 new
Solace is a Canadian software company founded in 2001 and based in Ottawa. Its event streaming platform moves data between applications in real time. The technology is used by banks, airlines and retailers worldwide.
fujitsu.com • HQ: Tokyo, Japan • High-Performance Computing • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • Systems Integrators • 5000+ employees • Est. 1935 • Trust A • Hiring 259, 27 new
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • High-Performance Computing • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • Systems Integrators • 5000+ employees • Est. 1935 • Trust A • Hiring 259, 27 new
Fujitsu is a Japanese information and communications technology company headquartered in Tokyo. It provides IT services, systems integration, cloud and computing products, including high-performance computing.
akamai.com • HQ: Cambridge, United States • Information Security • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Web Security & DDoS Protection • CDN & Edge Delivery • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1998 • Trust A • Hiring 212, 29 new
HQ: Cambridge, United States • Information Security • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Web Security & DDoS Protection • CDN & Edge Delivery • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1998 • Trust A • Hiring 212, 29 new
Akamai is an American company founded in 1998 out of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into distributing internet content across many servers close to users, which created the content delivery network industry. Its servers still deliver a large share of web traffic, but the company now earns more from security products such as denial of service protection, web application firewalling and zero trust access, and from a distributed cloud business built on the Linode acquisition. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and listed on Nasdaq, it has shifted its identity from delivery vendor to security provider.
cohere.com • HQ: Toronto, Canada • LLM & Generative AI • Foundation Models • AI Agents • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2019 • Trust A • Hiring 112, 6 new
HQ: Toronto, Canada • LLM & Generative AI • Foundation Models • AI Agents • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2019 • Trust A • Hiring 112, 6 new
Cohere is a Canadian artificial intelligence company founded in Toronto in 2019 by researchers including one of the co-authors of the transformer architecture paper. It builds large language models aimed specifically at enterprise use rather than consumer chat, with a product line covering text generation, embeddings, reranking and an agent platform, and it emphasises private deployment inside a customer's own cloud or data centre for regulated industries. The company has raised substantial funding from technology and industrial investors, and partners with cloud providers and system integrators to reach banking, healthcare and public sector customers.
≈ $182k – $321k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • San Francisco • New York • Ottawa • Toronto • Montreal • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • Staff
edc.ca • HQ: Ottawa, Canada • Property & Casualty Insurance • Factoring & Trade Finance • Development Finance Institutions • Est. 1944 • Hiring 21, 3 new
HQ: Ottawa, Canada • Property & Casualty Insurance • Factoring & Trade Finance • Development Finance Institutions • Est. 1944 • Hiring 21, 3 new
Export Development Canada (EDC) is the federal Crown corporation that serves as the export credit agency of Canada, headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It offers Canadian exporters trade credit insurance, working capital guarantees, direct lending, buyer financing, structured and project finance and equity investments, and operates community hubs in cities such as Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Halifax and Vancouver. It hires in IT and cybersecurity, ServiceNow and software engineering, credit insurance products, risk, audit, sustainability and commercial account management, and runs large student and new graduate programs.
fellow.ai • HQ: Ottawa, Canada • Project & Work Management Software • Team Communication & Collaboration • 501-1000 employees • Startup • Hiring 5
HQ: Ottawa, Canada • Project & Work Management Software • Team Communication & Collaboration • 501-1000 employees • Startup • Hiring 5
Fellow records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings with enterprise-grade privacy, compliance controls, configurable retention, and no AI training on your data.
ericsson.com • HQ: Stockholm, Sweden • Telecom Infrastructure • Mobile Networks • Network Equipment • 5000+ employees • Est. 1876 • Trust B • Hiring 415, 19 new
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden • Telecom Infrastructure • Mobile Networks • Network Equipment • 5000+ employees • Est. 1876 • Trust B • Hiring 415, 19 new
Ericsson is a Swedish telecommunications company founded in 1876 and headquartered in Stockholm. It supplies mobile network equipment and software to operators worldwide. The company is one of the largest providers of fifth generation network infrastructure.
mindbridge.ai • Ottawa • AI Agents • Audit & Assurance Firms • Est. 2015 • Hiring 6, 1 new
Ottawa • AI Agents • Audit & Assurance Firms • Est. 2015 • Hiring 6, 1 new
MindBridge is the leader in Autonomous Financial Oversight (AFO). The AI-native platform analyzes 100% of transactions at scale across financial systems of record to detect risks early, explain insights with clarity, and enable governed actions.
45 of these Backend Developer Salary in Ottawa state pay directly. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $78K and $123K a year, with a median of $95K. By level, the median runs middle at $74K, senior at $111K, and lead at $114K. The step from middle to lead is worth about 1.5x on median pay. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
The market right now
Alion currently lists 91 open Backend Developer Salary in Ottawa from 47 companies. 16 of them were posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 42 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are Canada (6). 21% of the listings are fully remote and a further 31% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open Backend Developer Salary in Ottawa right now are Solace (6), Ericsson (5), Accenture (5), Cisco Systems (5), ADGA (5), and General Dynamics (5). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are Python (41), CI/CD (36), JavaScript (30), Linux (28), Kubernetes (27), Agile (27), Java (26), and TypeScript (26). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current Backend Developer Salary in Ottawa, 1 states visa sponsorship, 1 offers a relocation package, and 17 include equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
How many Backend Developer Salary in Ottawa are open right now?
There are 91 open Backend Developer Salary in Ottawa on Alion from 47 companies. The list was last refreshed on October 23, 2026.
What do Backend Developer Salary in Ottawa pay?
The median is $95K a year, and the middle half of the market falls between $78K and $123K. This is based on the 45 listings that state pay.
Are any of these roles remote?
19 of the 91 listings (21%) are fully remote, and you can filter the list down to them in one click.
Which companies are hiring?
The most active employers right now are Solace, Ericsson, Accenture, Cisco Systems, ADGA, and General Dynamics. Each has its own page on Alion with the rest of its open roles.
Can I get visa sponsorship or relocation?
Yes - of the current listings, 1 state visa sponsorship and 1 offer a relocation package. Both are filters on the jobs page.
How do I apply?
Open any listing and apply on the employer's own board through the link on the page. No account is required to browse or to apply.
