API Writer Developer Intern: Winter 2024

  • Montreal / Quebec City / Sherbrooke (Province of Quebec, Canada)
  • Research and Development
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Make an impactful contribution with both your writing and coding skills!

The API writers team is looking for a talented intern! API writers are responsible for most of Coveo's public-facing developer documentation. In other words, they are responsible for reviewing all API reference documentation, in addition to writing guides, examples, tutorials, etc. 

The team also maintains the documentation site and automates as much of the documentation generation as possible, which entails a significant amount of coding.

If you have strong full stack skills and are interested in creating documentation on the subject, this may be the internship opportunity you’re looking for! We will entrust you with concrete and impactful projects relating to both coding and writing because we believe that our personalized mentorship program and latest tooling will enable you to succeed.

What would your typical day look like?

  • You start your day off with a team meeting (scrum) to track the progress on the team’s different projects and elevate each other by sharing innovative ideas.
  • You start your morning by working with your coach to produce an example of functional code to demonstrate a use case for one of our libraries.
  • Following that, you jump into your next task which is to review your coworker’s ruby script to automate documentation generation, which they submitted yesterday afternoon on GitHub.
  • It’s already lunch time! You attend a lunch and learn as you seek to benefit from your colleagues’ expertise.
  • After lunch, you review some API reference documentation drafted by a backend developer for a new service.
  • Finally, you collaborate on a module in a developer tutorial. You then jump on a planning meeting with a team you are writing documentation for.
  • The day is coming to an end! You’ve learned so much in a day, you look back and assess your contribution in cultivating excellence, already looking forward to tomorrow! Until then, you join your colleagues for Smash tournament to celebrate your successes. 

 

Ready to become our next intern superstar?
Requirements:

  • You are studying Software Engineering or Computer Science and you have a passion for writing, or you're doing a double major in Computer Science and something like Linguistics, Philosophy, or Psychology (considered an asset). 
  • You have prior experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Angular/React/Vue. 
  • You have excellent writing skills and can explain things in a cohesive manner.
  • You prefer writing a script to automate a repetitive documentation task rather than doing it manually every time. 
  • You have a strong sense of ownership; always finding ways to learn and keep up with current trends.
  • You are  proud of what you create; you strive to grow and are results-driven. 

Do you also possess the following skills? That’s Great: 

  • You are always seeking new challenges; for instance you’ve participated in various hackathons!
  • You are someone who is curious by nature, you ask questions attempting to understand what you don’t know
  • You take initiatives and work independently!
  • You have great organizational and time management skills

Why do an internship at Coveo?

An internship at Coveo is an opportunity to be part of a passionate, talented team working at the cutting edge of technology. Plus, this is not our first rodeo, we’ve been welcoming and supporting interns with us since 2008! We’re investing in the next generation of innovators by passing on our knowledge and best practices to students. You can expect to be entrusted with projects that meet your ambitions and you will be supervised by a coach who will impart to you a wealth of knowledge that only an innovative workplace can offer you. You will of course be invited to participate in all of the company's activities. With our flexible hybrid work model, you’ll get to collaborate with your colleagues in-person at the office twice a week! We can't wait to get to know you! 

 

Join the Coveolife!

Experience comes in many forms but we offer challenges that meet your ambition; to enable you to learn consistently. 

We encourage all candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background. 

Please note: Due to all of the team members being located in the province of Quebec and the internship being hybrid, we will prioritize candidates located in the province.

Absolutely! This is a question women and under-represented groups ask themselves more often than the rest of the population. Don't underestimate yourself, we are not looking for someone perfect but for someone who is motivated, capable and who will thrive in this position. Allow us to discover you!

Coveo is a Quebec-based company, pioneer in AI-powered search and recommendations. Coveo uses AI technologies and intelligent search to personalize every digital experience for customers, partners, dealers, and employees. Coveo combines unified content, unified interactions behavioral data and machine learning to deliver relevant information and recommendations across every business interaction, making websites, e-commerce, contact centers and intranets efficient, effortless, content-rich, thus boosting conversion.

If it were easy, someone else would have done it. All of our colleagues at Coveo find the drive to continuously seek new challenges and test roads no one else has ever explored. This ethos has allowed us to become a world leader in an innovative industry and to create a collaborative, diverse and trusting place to work filled with amazingly talented and passionate people.

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