PEY Junior Platform Engineer
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30+ days ago
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Are you interested in being a part of a company that has a positive social impact Do you want to join a growing team with a modern engineering culture
At BiblioCommons we build SaaS solutions for public libraries directly impacting the lives of millions and fostering learning literacy and culture within the digital world. We are constantly improving our products through user research client interaction and the input of our creative staff. Join a team of passionate professionals making public libraries accessible delightful and engaging.
A lot of companies tout social impact here at BiblioCommons we serve over 8 million diverse users each month by partnering with close to 200 public libraries in Canada the US and New Zealand. Libraries are more than just book stacks-they are public spaces that foster learning connection and community and BiblioCommons is bringing that community online with clever software that powers the worlds largest libraries.
Engineering @ BiblioCommons
BiblioCommons offers an opportunity to work in an environment that combines the challenges and complexity of a large-scale data-intensive application with the creativity and fun of a sophisticated consumer web offering central to the daily web interactions of millions of users.
Were a highly collaborative team that applies innovative solutions to challenging problems. We strongly believe in automation and invest heavily in it to make that possible. Were also committed to doing things right and always looking for ways to do them better.
We are looking for a Junior Platform Engineer for a 16-month internship to maintain and build complex integration systems that will help discover more physical and digital content for millions of users as part of the Platform this role you will be taking on challenges in the distributed systems space to help scale our multi-tenant applications embracing the future of software development by leveraging AI tools to accelerate coding debugging and problem-solving.
You will enjoy and be successful in this role if you are:
Great at debugging and not afraid to step out of your comfort zone
Accountable and take ownership of your work
Supportive and enjoys working as part of a team
Passionate to self-improve grow and tackle new challenges
Reliable and giving your best effort all the time
Never content with the status quo. You are always looking to automate improve processes and follow best practices
Curious adaptable and comfortable experimenting with AI-driven approaches to design build and optimize applications.
How youll make an impact:
Enhance and maintain our platform applications that serve millions of users
Debug and perform root cause analysis on integration issues
Use AI coding assistants (e.g. Amazon Q Copilot or similar LLM-powered tools) to streamline workflows generate high-quality code and enhance productivity.
Write clean robust and performant code
Maintain quality a priority by writing tests
Improve developer productivity by refactoring key areas of the platform codebase
Keep platform systems abreast with new technologies through tool and/or framework upgrades
Communicate effectively to flag challenges or blockers to deliver on time
What you will bring to the team:
Computer Science/Engineering program
A solid theoretical foundation in data structures and algorithms
Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
Excellent communication skills and collaborative across teams
Some knowledge of backend applications that interact with databases caches and search engines
Some knowledge of RESTful API applications
Passionate and motivated to learn new technologies
Bonus Points for:
Java programming experience or any another Object-oriented language
Knowledge of cloud native applications
Basic computer networking knowledge (Connectivity issues LANs firewalls etc.)
Worker Type:
Student (Fixed Term) (Trainee)Number of Openings Available:
0Required Experience:
Junior IC
Key Skills
- Splunk
- System Design
- C/C++
- FIPS
- Go
- LabView
- PKI
- AWS
- SolidWorks
- Linux
- Natural Language Processing
- Siem
About Company
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