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Software Development Intern

Helcim Inc.

Helcim Inc.

Software Engineering
Calgary, AB, Canada
Posted on Jan 12, 2025

We are passionate about hiring students and helping to give them an edge up in their career. Everyone should have the opportunity to build their skills and grow their career, and why not do this at one of Calgary’s fastest growing technology companies, who is changing the payments landscape.

We’re looking for two (2) interns to join our technology team in May 2025 for either a 12 or 16 month internship. In these roles you’ll be exposed to the development of a wide variety of features including both frontend and backend components in one of these development teams:

  • Integrations
  • Mobile App Development

As an intern, we’ll train you to tackle some great projects. You won’t just get your feet wet, you’ll get to do real work! You won't feel like just an "intern" but be a part of a great team that you'll want to continue working with. If you have a growth mindset, you’ll also find yourself quickly taking on new challenges.

This internship is open to post-secondary students, currently enrolled and returning to post-secondary studies following their internship with us. Candidates must be located in Calgary or open to relocate.

Typical Duties During Your Software Development Journey

  • Building smart and efficient code that works well within a service-based system architecture.
  • Developing new features and systems, as well as maintaining existing ones.
  • Coordinating with other team members on larger projects, as well as making sure that all systems are communicating effectively.
  • Ensuring that coding standards are always implemented across all code.

General Qualifications

  • Architecting scalable systems through Microservices built with Golang to solve concurrency challenges.
  • Architecting projects from the ground up while also improving existing systems through ongoing PHP maintenance and optimizations.
  • Building systems through Event Driven Architecture with Apache Kafka.
  • Work in a highly collaborative environment with cross functional teams (Product/DevOps/Stakeholders/Design)
  • Building Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines through Gitlab to increase automation.
  • Building reactive UIs with a Javascript framework such as Vue.js, Angular or React.
  • Easily discover new insights through our BigQuery Data Warehouse.

If you’re interested in working with with the Mobile App Development team, please highlight any skills in:

  • Mobile application development (Android and/or iOS).
  • Mobile principles (UI implementation, iOS and/or Android application development frameworks, REST APIs).
  • Programming languages - Swift, Kotlin, Java in a mobile application development context.