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Backend Developer Intern, Summer 2026
- Quebec City (Province of Quebec, Canada)
- Research and Development
- Intern
- Hybrid
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What does it take to scale a core search platform powering experiences for global clients?
Are you curious about how large-scale search systems work and motivated to make them faster, smarter, and more efficient? Coveo is looking for a Software Developer intern to join our Search API team in Research & Development. Your mission? Explore how we can evolve and scale the Search API to reduce memory usage, improve startup time, lower database load, and increase throttling accuracy.
The Search API team orchestrates the services that drive searches vital to our client's businesses and empower administrators with a programmable query transformation system. As an intern, you’ll contribute to a strategic initiative that directly impacts Coveo’s ability to scale for the future.
Your impact, day to day:
- Engage actively in daily stand-up meetings to discuss progress, roadblocks, and plans. Collaborate with team members to ensure alignment and effective communication.
- Manage and resolve assigned Jira tickets, ensuring timely completion of tasks.
- Contribute to real-world projects that will be implemented for Coveo's clients. This can include coding, testing, and deploying solutions that meet customer requirements and enhance their experience.
- Develop your skills by drawing on your mentor’s expertise. Watch, learn, and apply the best practices, methodologies, and strategies used in project management and software development.
- Take an active role in code review sessions. Offer constructive feedback and receive advice on how to raise the quality of your code, follow best practices and strengthen your programming skills.
The Essentials:
- You are currently studying Software Engineering or Computer Science in a Bachelor's degree or higher in the province of Québec.
- You are able to work from one of our offices 2 days a week. Our hybrid work model offers flexibility, you can benefit from face-to-face learning from your team on office days while home days allow you to focus and complete complex work.
- You are legally entitled to work full-time in Canada for the duration of the 15 week internship.
Think you’ve got what it takes? Let’s see!
- You have experience in Git, Scala, an object oriented programming language, and knowledge of web technologies, with experience with AWS and/or Kubernetes as a bonus.
- You have completed an internship in a similar role.
- You have a strong sense of ownership and are proud of what you create.
- You strive to grow and aren't afraid to ask questions.
- You’re passionate about the tech industry and lead with a proactive mindset.
- You’ve participated in some hackathons and/or have a few personal projects.
Join the Coveolife!
You don’t need to check every single box; passion goes a long way and we appreciate that skills are transferable.
Send us your application, we want to hear from you!
We encourage all candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background.
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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. We love a good challenge, and we never say no to an opportunity to learn and develop new cutting-edge skills. Discover our values here
In-person
This role requires you to be in the office full-time, whether it be at our Quebec, Montreal, Weert, or London locations. Our modern infrastructures are designed to enhance cross-team collaboration and promote overall well-being.
Hybrid
Our offices in Quebec City, Montreal, London and Weert are designed to foster collaboration and your well-being. We gather there on our pillar days two times a week to strengthen in-person interactions and encourage creativity, all while providing you with the flexibility of a hybrid environment.
Remote
We hire from all over the world because the diversity of backgrounds fuels our continuous innovation. Our benefits will enable you to work comfortably from home, but you may be required to travel to attend our in-person team-building events.
