Software Developer Fall 2026 Co-op

D2L is a cloud company that is modernizing education and building the Future of Work. The old models of teaching and learning are in the midst of the largest transformation in history and D2L is at the heart of that fundamental shift.

New models of teaching and learning enable a personalized student-centric experience and deliverimproved retention engagement satisfaction and results for learners of all ages in schools campuses and companies.

D2L is disrupting the way the world learns by providing the next generation learning environment and solutions to engage and inspire learners. And most importantly by giving customers a platform that is easy flexible and other company provides a solution as robust and innovative as D2L.

D2L has had a singular mission for 25 years and is dedicated to that same mission in the years ahead: to transform the way the world learns and by doing so we will help improve human potential globally.

Every application we receive is personally reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team - yes a real person looks at your resume! While we use AI tools internally to streamline tasks like meeting notes summaries and administrative work these tools never rank resumes make hiring decisions or influence candidate evaluations.

Are you eligible for co-op at D2L

Our co-op roles are open to applicants who are:

• Currently enrolled in a post-secondary program and will not graduate prior to this co-op role (preference for students enrolled in an official co-op program)
• Able to work 40 hours per week
• Able to work in-person from a D2L office (office location dependent on role)

APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 19 9:00am ET

(Note for University of Waterloo students: please apply to the posting for this job on WaterlooWorks and NOT here. Thank you!)

Every day our software is used by millions of people around the world and we are looking for students who share in our excitement and passion for transforming the way the world learns. At D2L we believe that learning should be accessible and engaging. Our goal is to create easy flexible and smart software that ignites the desire to learn in everyone. To do this we need to give talented enthusiastic and passionate people like you opportunities to create develop and collaborate on projects that revolutionize the learning environment.

Whether youre a first year Co-op or looking for a place to transition into as a New Graduate we are looking for superstars to help influence and provide innovative insights into future versions of our Brightspace software. Youll thrive in our agile culture where teams speak freely and collaborate to solve interesting problems and will be constantly learning and looking for ways to innovate. If you get stuck you can work with your assigned mentor to figure out the best way to proceed.

What youll get out of working at D2L

The challenges and responsibilities given ability to learn new things and work on meaningful product that reaches over 15 million learners daily are just a few of the things that set D2L apart as a student employer. With an open office concept and overall work environment (not a single employee has their own office including our CEO) we are located in the Catalyst137 building in Kitchener.

At D2L you will have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies to build highly scalable and fault tolerant systems. On the backend our product is built on stack but we have a growing ecosystem of cloud-native services built on the AWS platform leveraging technologies such as SNS SQS Kinesis DynamoDB Serverless (Lambda) etc. On the front-end we use Polymer and other web frameworks to build engaging and responsive web apps. We also build native mobile apps in Kotlin and Swift. Ultimately we strive to use the most appropriate technologies to achieve our goal of changing the way the world dont need to know how to use these yet well help you learn!

What is D2L looking for from me

You have a strong entrepreneurial drive an enthusiastic and dedicated mindset and a thirst for a challenge. The ability to think on your feet and work successfully both in independent and team-settings is essential. At D2L our co-ops have a voice and are able to quickly contribute to their teams objectives (we dont have co-op projects youll be working on real deliverables).

Education Recommendations

Currently a candidate for Bachelors degree or diploma in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field.

Why were awesome

We offer our Co-ops monthly internet reimbursement monthly co-op events and opportunity to be a fully involved member of a team. Plus were always hiring superstar New Grads so get a step ahead of the rest by networking within D2L on your work term.

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This position is to fill an existing vacancy