AddressCo-op Student - Software Developer
Why you’ll love this role
This is an exciting opportunity for a student to gain valuable, hands-on experience while gaining credit towards their educational requirements in their field of study. Co-op developers have a unique opportunity to explore emerging technologies through generating ideas, requesting funding and stopping projects based on your market learning.
What you’ll be working on
You will learn, apply and experience the innovation process and lean concept development by:
- Aiding in ideation to solve real market problems
- Designing, prototyping and testing ideas with customers, in the actual market
- Answering critical business questions by collecting real market data
- Rapidly develop your solution concept into functional prototypes (for web and/or mobile)
- Investigate the potential of new and emerging technologies (e.g. big data, platform features, AI)
- Refine presentation skills by pitching concepts and demos to senior executives
- Learn and share developer insights with other teams and partners
- Gain experience making real business process improvement through digitization
- Opportunity to work as part of a dynamic, agile team to delivering cutting edge digital transformation online
- Contribute to building proof of concept and exploratory work for an API and services-enabled application architecture, and to deliver interconnected capabilities through a distributed digital ecosystem
- Work closely with digital marketing experts to assess and analyze supporting technologies, data and patterns
- Research and try out innovative solutions and approaches, challenge existing scenarios and brainstorm new techniques
- Work remotely, but connected via Slack, chat, Google Hangouts, etc.
- Participate in daily team hangouts
What you’ll need to have
To be eligible for this opportunity you must:
- Be actively enrolled in post-secondary education that requires completion of a co-op term
- Provide official documentation from the post-secondary institution with details on your work term
It would be nice for you to have
- Team adopts a loosely hyper-agile methodology and uses the latest DevOps tools including:
- Slack - our team's main communications channel. We also use Slack bots of all shapes and sizes to automate our processes
- GitHub
- Jira - planning and tracking work
- CircleCI - automated behat testing and Continuous Integration and Deployment
- Dynamic Dev, Staging and Prod regions
- Google Cloud Platform
- Languages include: Node, React, Django, Flask, Python, Drupal/PHP, Java and others
Get to know us
We’re one of the top 10 life insurance companies in Canada and offer an environment that encourages the pursuit of personal and professional success. At the heart of that success is our focus on customers; we provide protection and financial security for Canadians—with a personal touch.
We acknowledge and reward talent, and support our employees in achieving and exceeding individual and organizational goals. Our goal is to make Empire Life a great place to work, learn and grow, where people can be their true selves, feel they belong and have equal opportunity for growth in their careers. We’re also committed to supporting an inclusive workplace that values diversity.
If you’re looking for an exciting opportunity and the chance to build a career in an innovative and dynamic organization, submit your resume by clicking on Apply.
Empire Life is committed to providing equal access to employment. Empire Life welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the screening and selection process. If you need this job posting in an alternative format please contact [email protected]
Students should apply through both their University portal and Empire's website (empire.ca/careers) to be eligible to get their application reviewed and proceed further.
