12 Canadian companies hiring right now
Breaking into an exciting tech role doesn’t always require training or experience in high-tech skills like coding or AI programming. In fact, many innovative companies in health, climate, finance and software keep their eyes peeled for candidates with different backgrounds.
“Technical skills can always be learned,” as Amy Yang, the co-founder and CEO of cleantech firm Seafoam Materials puts it plainly. “We look for people who approach problems with curiosity coupled with a real passion for climate solutions. People who care about how we change the way we build, for the better.”
Hiring ventures are looking for people with finance, sales, HR and marketing experience. Ready to put your experience to work making a difference? Here are 12 Canadian tech companies hiring right now.
Jobs in cleantech
CERT Systems
What they do: Toronto-based CERT Systems is helping industries ranging from transportation to energy reduce their carbon footprints. Instead of using petrochemicals as feedstock, its technology uses CO2 electrolysis — an electrochemical process that runs on renewable electricity and water — to convert carbon dioxide into everything from aviation-grade antifreeze to PVC pipes and polyester clothing.
In the news: The startup was the only Canadian company out of 25 winners of Tencent’s CarbonX 2.0 competition. The award provides emerging low-carbon technologies with funding and resources to bring their solutions to market.
Current opportunities: Laboratory technician co-op and finance and procurement manager.
Edgecom Energy
What they do: Edgecom Energy is a Toronto-based energy management platform that helps businesses, municipalities and post-secondary institutions reduce energy costs and meet sustainability goals. By unifying utility, asset and grid data in real time, the platform helps customers predict and avoid costly demand peaks, get paid to reduce usage during peak demand periods and complete sustainability reporting.
In the news: The company won the Data Center World Innovation Challenge for its work to improve how data centres and power grids interact.
Curent opportunities: Senior software engineer, head of people operations and vice president of finance.
Seafoam Materials
What they do: Traditional fibreglass or mineral wool insulation isn’t just bad for your skin, it’s bad for the planet. They are energy- and carbon-intensive products, requiring coal-fired furnaces and synthetic plastic binders in their manufacturing. Vancouver-based Seafoam Materials has developed a process that uses seaweed and upcycled waste fibre to create insulation that stores carbon. It’s a direct swap, which means no change to a builder’s existing workflow.
What Seafoam Materials looks for in candidates: Co-founder and CEO Amy Yang says they look for people who want to help shape the future of her relatively young company. “We’re about a year and a half in, so still at a very early stage. Whoever joins is going to have a huge impact in setting the tone and being part of the culture we’re creating — lots of autonomy and ownership,” says Yang. “Innovating in an industry that isn’t always open to change also means the team really has to be co-operative — curiosity, resourcefulness, and staying organized are the fundamentals.”
Current opportunities: Biomaterials innovation associate.
Jobs in health
Layla
What they do: Layla is an online and in-person therapy-matching platform that connects Canadians with therapists, based on a quick intake call. It offers options from individual and couples therapy to psychological assessments.
Fun fact: The Toronto-based company’s diverse roster of therapists means users can access mental health services in more than 27 languages.
Current opportunities: Full-stack software developer.
Phoenix Digital Health
What they do: Phoenix is a digital healthcare platform dedicated to improving men’s relationship with their health. The Toronto-based company offers weight management, hair loss and sexual health consultations and prescriptions — all available online.
In the news: Phoenix and its women’s health site, Raven, announced they are offering name-brand GLP-1 medications at the same price as the generic drug.
Current opportunities: Organic growth marketing manager, product manager and senior lifecycle marketing manager.
Verto Health
What they do: Verto Health merges hospital records, labs and imaging data to create digital twins of a patient. These digital twins help healthcare providers make informed decisions for each patient’s unique healthcare journey. The platform plugs into a hospital’s existing records systems under the same privacy rules already governing a patient’s health information.
Fun fact: The Toronto- and Ottawa-based company partnered with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health to build a web-based platform to provide more integrated care for CAMH patients.
Current opportunities: Senior full-stack developer and senior engineer manager.
Jobs in finance
ProNavigator
What they do: ProNavigator is an AI assistant built specifically for insurance teams tasked with cross-referencing fragmented policy documents and claims histories. This solution helps claims handlers, underwriters and customer service reps make faster, more consistent decisions.
Fun fact: The company’s founder, Joseph D’Souza, started the company in 2016 after getting stuck on hold with his insurance provider.
Current opportunities: Senior consultant developer, delivery assurance lead consultant and technical program manager.
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.
Fun fact: VoPay’s team is spread across more than 15 countries, offering services in 20 different languages.
Current opportunities: Chief global compliance officer, web developer and sales director.
Jobs in software
Influicity
What they do: Brands use Influicity to improve their influencer and creator marketing campaigns. The platform uses subscribers, content views, audience and geographic data to track metrics across channels. For marketers, this means more control, less guesswork and better performance from social media campaigns.
Fun fact: The company’s founder hosts a podcast that explores the origin stories of entrepreneurs who have scaled their businesses from dorm rooms to million-dollar corporations.
Current opportunities: Sales representative.
Kepler Communications
What they do: Kepler Communications’ fleet of satellites allows other satellites, spacecraft and platforms to connect through its high-speed global network, expanding access to real-time data anywhere in orbit.
In the news: The Toronto-based company received $7 million from FedDev Ontario to help commercialize its optical relay satellites which will create a cloud environment in orbit for commercial and sovereign space missions.
Current opportunities: Quality assurance specialist, embedded software designer and technical buyer.
Rubicon
What they do: Kitchener-based Rubicon’s platform is used by police departments to handle non-emergency incidents that still need a response but don’t warrant a 911 call, such as a stolen bike. Instead of tying up 911 operators, residents and businesses can report incidents online while still receiving support in a timely manner.
What it’s like working at Rubicon: “Experimentation is a big one for us,” says Landon DeReus, solutions specialist at Rubicon. “If someone tries something and thinks it’s an improvement, we’ll have the debate. That branches into this open, self-managed way of working.”
Current opportunities: Senior backend engineer.
Top Hat
What they do: Top Hat is an app used by educators to create interactive lectures, quizzes, polls and discussions that keep students engaged, whether in-class or online. Over three million students at 750 of North America’s top colleges and universities have used Top Hat.
Fun fact: The Toronto-based edtech leader was founded by two University of Waterloo students.
Current opportunities: Solutions marketing manager and sales representative.
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Alex Kinsella