We recruit exceptional Canada-based remote technology professionals and manage their employment, payroll, HR, and compliance so your team can build, ship, and scale faster.
Software, product, data, cloud, cybersecurity, and IT teams are built around digital tools, making many technology roles naturally suited to remote collaboration.
Intra helps U.S. companies recruit and employ exceptional Canada-based technology professionals who work exclusively within their organization. Your employee joins your team, uses your systems, follows your processes, reports through your existing structure, and collaborates during your working hours.
Intra manages the recruitment, Canadian employment, payroll, HR, and compliance so your leaders can focus on products, customers, and growth.
Most companies offer one or the other. A staffing agency finds you someone, charges a huge placement fee, and disappears. An EOR service manages compliance and payroll for hires you have already sourced yourself. Neither solves the full problem. Intra does both, bundled into one service, while saving you significant costs.
We actively headhunt from the Canadian market on your behalf, targeting qualified and experienced professionals who match exactly what you are looking for.
Share the role, the skills, the expectations, and the context. We take it from there.
We headhunt, screen, and run thorough reference checks on every candidate. You receive a curated shortlist of people we'd vouch for personally.
We facilitate the process. You make the final call, always. Intra never places someone without your explicit approval.
Once you've chosen, we manage the offer letter, employment contract, and onboarding. You're ready to go.
Once your hire is selected, Intra brings them on as an employee in Canada. You do not need to set up a Canadian entity or navigate provincial employment law. We carry that entirely.
Processed accurately and on time, every pay cycle.
CPP, EI, and all employer-side remittances handled in full.
Your hire receives proper Canadian benefits, managed and administered by Intra.
Full compliance with Canadian federal and provincial employment law, year-round.
All the day-to-day employment admin that would land on your desk, taken off it permanently.
Your hire works with you every day as a dedicated member of your team. We run the back-end.
Don't see the position you need? Request a free Canada Advantage Report. We will assess the role, Canadian talent availability, expected compensation, technical requirements, and any security or operational considerations before recruitment begins.
Canada has a highly educated workforce supported by a strong network of universities, colleges, technical programs, and applied learning pathways. This creates access to professionals across software development, data, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, product, design, and enterprise technology.
Canada has established technology hubs across Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, Alberta, and other regions. These ecosystems produce experienced professionals across software engineering, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, product development, and IT operations.
Canada-based professionals can collaborate directly with U.S. teams during shared working hours. They can participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, product reviews, incident response, customer meetings, and other real-time workflows. They are not an outsourced development agency. They become dedicated members of your team.
Canadian technology professionals commonly work with globally adopted programming languages, cloud platforms, development frameworks, project-management systems, and security practices. Intra recruits around your exact technical environment rather than expecting your organization to adapt to a predetermined technology stack.
Hiring Canada-based technology professionals through Intra can reduce fully loaded employment costs by 20-40% compared with hiring the same role independently in the United States. You gain access to exceptional talent while reducing the cost and administrative burden associated with recruitment, payroll, HR, benefits, and cross-border employment.
Every technology organization operates differently. We tailor recruitment to the tools, platforms, methodologies, and experience your team requires. Candidates can be screened for experience with:
Technology experience varies by candidate. Intra builds every search around your required stack, seniority, industry, certifications, schedule, and delivery model.
Your Canada-based employee works exclusively for your company and can be fully integrated into your technology environment.
Intra manages the employment relationship behind the scenes. You remain in control of the employee's projects, priorities, performance, systems access, and daily responsibilities.
Canadian employment costs are structurally lower than their U.S. equivalents. The USD/CAD exchange rate, combined with Canada's lower employer-side healthcare and benefits obligations, means a highly qualified Canadian professional typically costs 20 to 40% less in total employment spend than a comparable hire in the U.S.
Intra charges $4 for every hour your hire works. That single fee covers the full staffing process and the ongoing Employer of Record management, combined, indefinitely.
There are no upfront fees, no retainers, no long-term commitments, no hidden fees, and no cancellation fees. Fees begin only when the employee starts working. You pay for the hours your hire works and nothing else. If circumstances change and the engagement needs to end, you simply stop. No paperwork, no penalties. That is it.
Enter the annual salary you are paying or expect to pay for a role, add your approximate benefits package, and see how the total employment cost compares between a U.S. hire and a Canadian hire through Intra.
$140,000
Fully loaded annual cost
$101,353
Fully loaded annual cost
This calculator produces an estimated cost comparison based on average US and Canada salaries, benefits, conversion rates, and fully loaded costs, and is in no way a definitive result. For accurate costs and savings, please consult with our team.
These are general estimates. Your Canada Advantage Report gives you a more precise, role-specific breakdown at no cost.
Most software, data, product, support, and general IT positions can be strong candidates for remote Canadian staffing. Some roles, however, may require additional review based on security, data access, contracts, systems, or regulatory requirements.
Request a free Canada Advantage Report and receive a customized assessment of the technology role you are considering.
Your report will be delivered within two business days, giving you the information you need to make an informed hiring decision before recruitment begins.
The early weeks of any new hire carry some inherent uncertainty. Skills do not always translate as expected. Team dynamics shift. Circumstances change. We know this, and we plan for it.
If a hire is not working out, Intra steps in immediately and restarts the search at no additional cost. We move with urgency and place a replacement as quickly as possible. No penalty. No additional fees of any kind.
Your staffing needs should never become a distraction from running your business. That responsibility is ours to carry. Our goal is simple: ensure you always have the right person in the seat so you can stay focused on what actually matters.
Access exceptional Canada-based technology professionals while Intra manages the recruitment, employment, payroll, HR, and Canadian compliance.