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Canada is a world-renowned market for elite, engineering talent

With rich tech ecosystems in Vancouver, Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada is a top global hiring locale for software engineers and developers.

Officially on the map as a technology leader, Canada is a premier global market for hiring skilled and experienced engineers.

Home to some of the world’s best computer science programs and a burgeoning startup scene, the country is a hotspot for tech talent. Its thriving tech ecosystems include Vancouver, which was recently recognized as the top city in North America for tech growth; Toronto, also known as “Silicon Valley North”; and Kitchener-Waterloo, which claims the world’s second-highest density of tech startups.

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Geography working in your favor

Time zones matter – for meetings, for collaboration, and for moving projects forward. As our Northern neighbors, remote workers in Canada are ideally situated for alignment with US time zones. And when face-to-face interaction is necessary, Terminal’s Canadian hiring locales are short flights from US tech hubs.

A high-volume pipeline of expert engineering talent

~353,000

engineers and related technical professionals

43%

of the country’s technical talent hold advanced degrees in computer science or related fields

13+ years

of work experience, on average, among Canadian engineers

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High-powered engineering teams in Canada, fully remote

Terminal helps you find top Canadian tech talent to build your engineering teams. As the Employer of Record, we take care of all paperwork and legal red tape, onboarding and ongoing admin services, and offer expert localized HR. As part of their comprehensive benefits packages, engineers receive workspace budgets to enhance their home offices for optimal remote productivity.

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Why Terminal

When you team up with Terminal for hiring in Canada, you can hire across many regions simultaneously. Our Canada-based recruiters tap into networks from coast to coast, helping US tech companies add talented engineers to their teams since 2016.

“Terminal offered the benefit of being able to quickly build a team without having to worry about building the organizational rubric to support it in Canada. It can be a lot of work to set up to run internationally and [Terminal] took that off our plate.”

Rupen Chanda

SVP of Engineering at Bluescape

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Build farther, faster

Along with leveraging Canada’s rich talent ecosystems, Terminal’s recruiting network extends to tech hotspots in Latin America and Europe. With a multi-market hiring approach, you’ll rapidly scale your engineering team and gain access to a diverse set of perspectives to fuel innovation for your next big project.

Hiring Cost Calculator

Terminal’s free cost calculator shows you the cost to hire an engineer in a country abroad vs hiring domestic or US so you can more effectively budget for your global team!

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