12 Canadian companies hiring right now
The weather isn’t the only thing looking good this summer. Statistics Canada reported an increase of 88,000 jobs last month, with the unemployment rate dropping to 6.6 percent. One major highlight for tech workers — there were an estimated 19,000 new jobs added in May.
Explore the 12 Canadian tech companies hiring for a variety of positions right now.
Jobs in cleantech
Growcer
What they do: Ottawa-based Growcer is working to help communities grow fresh produce year-round. Its vertical, stackable farming technology systems use hydroponics and LED lighting to produce healthy yields indoors, protected from cold winter conditions, floods and droughts.
In the news: The company was featured in this year’s BetaKit Most Ambitious list.
Current opportunities: Growth marketer.
Promise Robotics
What they do: Promise Robotics, with operations in Toronto, Calgary and Edmonton, is automating the homebuilding process. The company uses industrial robots to assemble sections in a controlled off-site factory, which speeds up homebuilding and reduces costs associated with labour shortages.
Fun fact: The University of Alberta named its School of Engineering and Building Science after the company’s co-founder and U of A alum Reza Nasseri.
Current opportunities: Proposal writer.
Vive Crop Protection
What they do: Vive Crop Protection’s nano-particle delivery system helps farmers apply fungicides, insecticides and nematicides to their crops, which helps increase yields and profits.
Fun face: The Mississauga-based company started as a research project for medical use before the founders spotted an opportunity to apply the technology to agriculture.
Current opportunities: Analytics lab technician and senior product manager.
Jobs in health
Intellijoint Surgical
What they do: Kitchener-based Intellijoint Surgical develops navigation solutions for joint replacements. This surgeon-controlled system provides real-time measurements that optimize alignment and positioning during total hip and knee replacements, with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
What they look for in a candidate: “We tend to look for people who think about the end user in everything they do and care about the impact of their work on surgeons, care teams and patients,” says Delia Bortos, senior director of people and culture at Intellijoint.
Current opportunities: Territory manager, market development manager and supply chain specialist.
MetricAid
What they do: MetricAid has developed a smart scheduling platform to help medical teams optimize physician schedules and provide better care for patients. Instead of multiple physical calendars and paperwork, schedulers and physicians have a unified calendar that can be updated in real time and reduce the administrative back-and-forth that slows patient care down.
Fun fact: The North Bay, Ont.-based company was founded by hospital administrator Les Blackwell and Dr. Scott Daley, who saw first-hand how wait times and physician burnout affected patient care.
Current opportunities: Scheduler
Petal
What they do: Petal’s AI platform analyzes real-time patient and facility data to better predict patient demand, streamline scheduling and reduce wait times.. For health systems, this means better efficiency and care delivery without adding more staff or infrastructure.
What they look for in a candidate: The Montreal-based company says it has helped healthcare systems save $339 million since 2022.
Current opportunities: Mobile developer, senior developer and principal architect.
Jobs in finance
Shakepay
What they do: Montreal-based Shakepay allows Canadians to easily buy and sell Bitcoin and pay their friends through a mobile app. Its platform is designed to make cryptocurrency transactions fast, secure and accessible to everyone.
In the news: Shakepay has become the first crypto company granted Payments Canada membership, giving it the ability to apply for direct access to Canada’s core payments infrastructure.
Current opportunities: Fraud operations lead, senior data scientist and product designer.
Trulioo
What they do: Trulioo is a Vancouver-based digital identity company that helps businesses verify customers and organizations online. Its platform is used by banks, credit unions, payment providers, e-commerce marketplaces and crypto firms.
Fun fact: The company has a Dublin-inspired in-office pub (a nod to their Dublin office), decorated with maps of Ireland and used for monthly happy hours.
Current opportunities: Senior product manager, product manager and corporate controller.
VoPay
What they do: VoPay’s platform helps businesses integrate complex financial services such as cross-border payments and payment verification into existing systems. Companies use VoPay to securely manage payments, automate money movement and access various payment rails without having to build the infrastructure from scratch.
In the news: The company announced it moved its headquarters to Qatar as it looks to expand its digital financial infrastructure across the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia.
Current opportunities: Sales director, QA engineer and senior customer success manager.
Jobs in software
Cognichip
What they do: Designing the chips that power our laptops, phones and AI data centres is a labour-intensive process that can take two to three years to complete. Toronto-based Cognichip wants to shrink that time by using a specially-designed type of artificial intelligence solution it claims can complete a design 50 percent faster than traditional processes.
What they look for in a candidate: In April, the company announced it had completed its $60-million Series A round.
Current opportunities: Staff ASIC design engineer, staff chip designer and senior FPGA engineer.
Vention
What they do: Manufacturers use Vention’s cloud-based DIY platform to design, order and commission industrial equipment from a single interface. More than 2,000 factories across five continents use Vention.
What they look for in a candidate: The Montreal-based robotics company announced it raised U.S.$110 million in January.
Current opportunities: Senior robotics developer, senior robot motion control developer and product marketing manager.
Leap Tools
What they do: Leap Tools’ proprietary augmented reality (AR) visualization platform helps people buy home decor and furniture items online and in-store. This solution helps customers remove the guesswork of choosing the right couch, table, bed or whatever product they’re shopping for, ensuring it will fit well in their space. This helps boost sales and cut back on returns.
Fun fact: Before starting Leap Tools, founder Pawel Rajszel worked at an investment firm after graduating from University of Waterloo.
Current opportunities: Business development manager, enterprise account executive and media buyer.
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Alex Kinsella