Top 10 Tech Firms to Consider for Jobs in Utah Right Now

Utah’s tech employers have set a high bar for what people expect from a workplace: a four-day week at a Lehi software company, full medical premiums covered in St. George, or a paid sabbatical at five years in South Jordan. Those policies shape what candidates ask for when they interview anywhere else in the state.

That makes the top tech companies in Utah worth studying whether you’re job hunting or hiring. For candidates, this is where the strongest offers in the state are. For employers, it’s a read on what you’re competing against when a good engineer or analyst has more than one option.

The companies below span Provo to Kaysville and include publicly traded platforms, a bootstrapped budgeting company, and private firms valued above $1 billion. Each entry covers what the company builds, where it’s based, and what employees actually say about working there, drawn from workplace awards, benefits documentation, and employee surveys.

One note on how to read the list: it isn’t ranked by size or revenue. These are Utah tech companies with verifiable workplace credentials, most from 2025 or 2026.

What Are The Best Tech Companies to Work for in Utah?

These ten companies compete for the same engineers, analysts, and product people you’re trying to hire. For the roles they’re filling and the pay they publish, see our companion guide to software companies in Utah. 

1. Qualtrics

Qualtrics created the experience management software category. Its platform is used by organizations to collect and act on customer and employee feedback. Co-headquartered in Provo and Seattle, it operates 28 offices globally and has about 6,300 employees. Silver Lake and CPP Investments took the company private in a $12.5 billion deal completed in June 2023.

Location: Provo, Utah

Why people work there: The benefits are unusually specific. US employees get 30 paid days off, an annual $1,800 Experience Bonus to spend on a trip or an event, and $300 per quarter for wellness, a program more than 95% of employees use. Qualtrics covers 85% of medical premiums and offers up to $10,000 in adoption or surrogacy reimbursement.

It’s Great Place To Work-Certified as of April 2026, with 75% of employees calling it a great place to work, and it runs a hybrid schedule of three in-office days with the option to work from anywhere for up to 10 additional days.

2. BambooHR

BambooHR builds HR software for small and mid-sized businesses, covering hiring, onboarding, payroll, and performance. Founded in Lindon in 2008 and now headquartered in Draper, it serves more than 34,000 customers across 190 countries with roughly 1,500 employees.

Location: Draper, Utah

Why people work there: BambooHR practices what it sells. The company has an anti-workaholic policy that forbids employees from working more than 40 hours a week, a rule co-founder Ryan Sanders adopted because burnout harms employees and their families. Work is hybrid, and the company hires primarily in Utah for those roles, so career growth doesn’t require relocating.

3. Health Catalyst

Health Catalyst provides data and analytics technology to hospitals and health systems, built around its Ignite data platform. Founded in 2008, it has traded on Nasdaq under HCAT since 2019 and employs roughly 1,200 people, making it one of the top tech companies in Utah.

Location: South Jordan, Utah

Why people work there: The workplace record here is the longest on this list. Health Catalyst was named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2025, its 13th consecutive year on the list, and a USA TODAY Top Workplace for the third year running.

It’s remote-first with unlimited PTO, and its benefits include free Headspace and Tava Health access for employees, partners, and dependents, plus pet insurance. The company’s operating principles of improvement, respect, accountability, and transparency come up repeatedly in employee feedback.

4. Lucid Software

Lucid makes visual collaboration software, including Lucidchart and Lucidspark, used by more than 100 million people and by most of the Fortune 500. Fast Company named it one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025.

Location: South Jordan, Utah

Why people work there: Lucid is Great Place To Work-Certified with 92% of employees saying it’s a great place to work, against 57% at a typical US company, on a profile updated in March 2026. It placed #25 on Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Technology 2025, its eighth consecutive year on that list, plus #15 for Best Workplaces for Parents and #74 on Best Medium Workplaces.

Employees get 20 days of PTO that grows to 25 with tenure, unlimited sick time, and a paid sabbatical at five years. Engineers also get an annual company-wide hackathon in Salt Lake City and two weeks a year for self-directed projects. Office roles are typically two days a week on site.

5. Waystar

Waystar builds healthcare payments software covering claims, prior authorization, denials, and patient billing. Co-headquartered in Lehi and Louisville, it trades on Nasdaq under WAY and serves about 30,000 clients representing more than a million providers. In 2026 it was named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies list and won TIME’s Impact in AI award.

Location: Lehi, Utah

Why people work there: Waystar’s Lehi office made Utah Business’s 2025 Best Companies to Work For list in the large-company category. Employees name the employee stock purchase program, 401(k) match, flexible time off, weekly catered lunches, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave. Nationally, the company scores 90% on Great Place To Work, against a US average of 57%, with 92% saying they’re proud to tell people where they work.

One trade-off worth knowing: engineering teams run on-call rotations every two to five weeks. Employees also note stronger gender balance than they’ve seen in other engineering organizations, which runs counter to the broader data on women in tech. 

6. Awardco

Awardco runs an employee recognition and rewards platform that lets companies reward staff through Amazon’s catalog and other partners. In 2025 it raised $165 million in Series B funding led by General Catalyst and Sixth Street, at a valuation around $1 billion, and it employs roughly 600 people.

Location: Lindon, Utah

Why people work there: Awardco is Great Place To Work-Certified, with 91% of employees saying it’s a great place to work. A company built on recognition uses its own product internally, and other Utah employers on this kind of list name AwardCo as the platform they use to recognize their own staff. The company has also appeared on the Salt Lake Tribune’s Utah Top Workplaces list in the 125 to 399 employee category.

7. OptConnect

OptConnect provides managed cellular connectivity for unattended equipment such as ATMs, kiosks, digital signage, and smart safes, handling the hardware, data plans, and monitoring as a single service. In August 2025, the company announced its fourth straight year on the Utah Business Fast 50 list.

Location: Kaysville, Utah

Why people work there: OptConnect was named to Utah Business’s 2025 Best Companies to Work For in the medium-company category, a list built from anonymous employee surveys.

Employees point to flexible hybrid schedules, generous PTO, tuition reimbursement, fitness and wellness incentives, and monthly company lunches. One described it as the best work environment they’d experienced, crediting how much the company invests in taking care of its people.

8. MasterControl

MasterControl makes cloud-based quality and manufacturing software for life sciences and other regulated industries, with customers including Pfizer and Thermo Fisher. Founded in 1993, it bootstrapped past $100 million in revenue before raising $150 million from Sixth Street Growth in 2022 at a $1.3 billion valuation. More than 1,100 companies use its platform.

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

Why people work there: For engineers, the appeal is the problem space: software that regulated manufacturers depend on to get drugs and medical devices to patients, which means long product cycles and stability rather than constant pivots.

Three decades in business under the same mission backs that up. CEO Jon Beckstrand was named a Utah Business CEO of the Year honoree, and the company has been recognized as a Salt Lake Tribune Utah Top Workplace in the 400-plus employee category.

9. Zonos

Zonos builds software for cross-border commerce, calculating duties, taxes, and fees so international shoppers see the full landed cost at checkout. Its platform supports more than 50,000 ecommerce merchants and 70-plus postal operators across 200-plus countries, and it raised a $69 million Series A led by Silversmith Capital Partners.

Location: St. George, Utah

Why people work there: The benefits are unusually direct for a company this size. Zonos pays 100% of the employee premium for medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, and its flexible time-off policy requires every employee to take at least two weeks off a year.

Staff are called “Zonuts,” and employee reviews consistently mention transparency and approachable leadership. It’s also one of the few significant tech employers in southern Utah, which matters for anyone who doesn’t want to compete in the Wasatch Front market.

10. YNAB

YNAB, short for You Need A Budget, makes personal budgeting software built around a four-rule method for assigning every dollar a purpose. Jesse Mecham founded the company in Lehi in 2004 while finishing a master’s degree in accounting, and it has stayed bootstrapped with no outside funding.

Location: Lehi, Utah (fully remote team)

Why people work there: YNAB runs a four-day work week and says teams rarely work more than that. It has a minimum vacation policy of three weeks a year, and the company will nudge employees who aren’t taking it, plus a two-week company-wide break in December.

The team has been fully remote since founding, so employees can live anywhere with a reliable connection, and the company brings people together through small-team meetups and a biennial all-company retreat. Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement contributions, paid parental leave, and profit-sharing.

Where Utah’s Tech Companies Are Concentrated

Tech companies in Salt Lake City cluster downtown and along the valley’s south end, where MasterControl, Health Catalyst, and Lucid sit. The bigger concentration is in Utah County: Lehi alone is home to Waystar, YNAB, Adobe’s campus, and dozens of others, which is why “Silicon Slopes” usually refers to the Lehi–Provo corridor rather than the state as a whole.

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What Utah Employers Can Learn From These Workplaces

Four patterns repeat across the companies above, and none of them require a Silver Lake balance sheet.

1. Time off that people actually take

Unlimited PTO is common enough to be meaningless on its own. What separates these employers is enforcement. Zonos requires every employee to take at least two weeks a year. YNAB sets a three-week minimum and follows up with people who aren’t using it.

Lucid adds a day of PTO per year of tenure up to 25, then a paid sabbatical at five years. The policy is the same on paper; the difference is whether taking the time is expected or quietly penalized, which is often what separates companies that retain their high performers from ones that keep refilling the same seat. 

2. Benefits that remove a real cost

Qualtrics pays 85% of medical premiums. Zonos covers 100% of the employee premium across medical, dental, vision, and life. Waystar offers 12 weeks of paid parental leave. These are line items a candidate can calculate, which makes them harder to beat with a modest salary bump.

3. Location clarity

Every company on the list states its model plainly: Health Catalyst is remote-first, YNAB has been fully remote since 2004, Lucid and Qualtrics run defined hybrid schedules, and BambooHR hires primarily in Utah for hybrid roles. Ambiguity about where someone will work is one of the cheapest things to fix in a job posting and one of the most common reasons good candidates disengage.

4. Recognition built into the week

Awardco’s own product category exists because recognition affects retention. Gallup attributes roughly 70% of the variance in team engagement to the manager, and in its study of people who left voluntarily, 42% said their manager or organization could have prevented it.

5. What the gap costs

The business case is straightforward. Global employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, its lowest level since 2020, which Gallup estimates costs the world economy $10 trillion in lost productivity. Replacing a single employee runs between 50% and 200% of their annual salary depending on seniority, and US voluntary turnover costs employers roughly $1 trillion a year. Great Place To Work reports that certified companies see retention 51% higher than a typical US workplace.

For a 200-person Utah company with an average salary of $90,000, moving turnover from 18% to 14% is eight fewer departures a year. At even the low end of the replacement range, that’s roughly $360,000 that stays in the business.

Matching these employers on every benefit isn’t realistic for most companies. Matching them on the ones candidates ask about first usually is, and knowing which ones those are starts with knowing who you’re competing against.

Hiring Against This List

The companies above set expectations for candidates across Utah. A developer in Lehi weighing your offer has probably seen what a four-day week or fully covered premiums looks like, even if they’ve never worked at one of these firms. That’s the market you’re hiring in.

The decision facing most employers isn’t whether to match those packages item for item. It’s which pieces matter enough to the people you’re trying to hire that going without them costs you the search, and where your own advantages sit. A smaller company can offer scope and visibility that a 6,000-person platform can’t.

Recruiting Connection has worked with Utah employers on that question for more than 30 years. As a Salt Lake City–based tech recruiting firm, we approach candidates who aren’t browsing job boards and know what it takes to move them. For CTO, VP of Engineering, and other leadership hires, our executive recruiters handle the search from defining the role through the offer.

Contact our team today to find the people these companies are already competing for.

Tech Companies in Utah: FAQs

What major technology companies are headquartered in Utah?

Qualtrics (Provo), BambooHR (Draper), Health Catalyst (South Jordan), Lucid Software (South Jordan), MasterControl (Salt Lake City), Awardco (Lindon), Zonos (St. George), and YNAB (Lehi) are all headquartered in the state. Waystar is co-headquartered in Lehi and Louisville. The group spans publicly traded platforms, private companies valued above $1 billion, and bootstrapped software firms.

Is Utah a tech hub?

Yes. Software and information technology is one of five industries the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity has designated as strategic for the state economy. Those five targeted industries employed nearly 494,900 people in 2024 at an average annual wage of $83,713, against $58,059 for other industries.

Why are there so many tech companies in Utah?

Three things compound. The state designates software and IT as a strategic industry and backs it with workforce programs. The talent pipeline is deep: Utah’s public colleges and universities awarded a record 71,262 certificates and degrees in 2025, up 26% since 2021. And the existing cluster attracts more companies, since engineers who leave one Lehi employer usually take a job at another rather than leaving the state.

What are the best technology companies in Utah to work for?

By third-party workplace recognition, Lucid Software is Great Place To Work-Certified at 92%, Health Catalyst has made Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare 13 consecutive times, and both Waystar and OptConnect appear on Utah Business’s 2025 Best Companies to Work For list.

Which Utah tech companies offer remote or four-day schedules?

YNAB runs a four-day work week and has been fully remote since 2004. Health Catalyst is remote-first with unlimited PTO. Lucid and Qualtrics run defined hybrid schedules, typically two and three in-office days respectively, and BambooHR hires primarily in Utah for hybrid roles.

What tech companies are based in Lehi, Utah?

Lehi is the center of the Silicon Slopes corridor. Waystar, YNAB, and Adobe’s campus are there, alongside Podium, Pattern, Weave, Entrata, DigiCert, and Limble. It’s also where Texas Instruments operates two semiconductor wafer fabs.

What are the top technology companies in Salt Lake City?

MasterControl is the largest pure Salt Lake City tech headquarters on this list, and NICE runs its Utah engineering operation in nearby Sandy. Several more sit just south in the valley, including Lucid Software and Health Catalyst in South Jordan.

I dropped the “currently hiring” FAQ. Any answer to it is out of date within weeks, and the companies it named were mostly branch offices rather than Utah employers.!