Intern Conversion: Software Developer

• Introduction
• As a Software Developer Co-Op, you'll gain hands-on experience working on real-world projects that impact users globally. You'll collaborate with designers and developers to build responsive, elegant, and user-friendly applications using modern web technologies.
• Your role and responsibilities
• You will:
• Participate in Agile development cycles: design, code, test, and support.
• Translate wire-frames into functional user interfaces.
• Learn and apply best practices in software development testing and debugging.
• Work with APIs, databases, and cloud-based services.

Who You Are

• Curious, motivated, and eager to learn new technologies.
• A team player with strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Comfortable with debugging, problem-solving, and adapting to new challenges.
• Required technical and professional expertise
• Required education
• Must be currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree program majoring in Computer Science or related field
• Must be eligible and available for an in-person, full-time co-op (40h/week) between January 2026 and June 2026Required technical and professional expertise
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue).
• Basic knowledge of backend technologies: Node.js, Java, Python, SQL.
• Understanding of software development tools (Git, IDEs) and version control.
• Exposure to automation testing frameworks and APIs.
• Awareness of operating systems, container technologies, and cloud platforms
• Preferred technical and professional experience
• Experience with cloud platforms (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure).
• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Familiarity with Agile tools and methodologies.
• Linux or Unix based OS
• Any one modern programming language like GO, NodeJS, JavaScript, Python
• Integrated development environments (e.g.: Eclipse, Visual Studio Code)
• Familiarity with Source control management (e.g. Git): to enable teams to work together to manage changes to source code
• Knowledge of containers, containers orchestration software, cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of SQL and relational database technology (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Db2, Oracle, SQL Server)
• Knowledge of automating infrastructure, testing, and deployments using tools like Jenkins, Puppeteer, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress or any other automation framework
• Knowledge of Deployment tools like

Jenkins, Travis:

for ensuring the latest software release is packaged correctly, tested, and deployed to an application server.

• Development experience with

REST API

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