Software Engineering Intern - 12M Term (Winter 2025)
Super.com
Software Engineering
Canada
Posted on Nov 1, 2024
About Super.com
We started Super.com to help maximize lives–both the lives of our customers and the lives of our employees– so that everyone can experience all that life has to offer. For our employees, our promise is that Super.com is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to unlock one’s potential, where learning is celebrated and impact is realized.
We are more than a fast-paced, high-growth tech company; we care about our people and take career progression seriously. This is your career and our aim is to supercharge it through the people, the work, and the programs that fuel who we are.
About the Role
We are looking to hire Software Engineering Interns with at least 8 months of experience to join our engineering team. It is a really exciting and technically challenging time for our engineering teams as we focus on 3 development pillars: travel, fintech, and a superapp to unite them along with other savings and earnings use cases. Between them, our services handle 1000s of requests per second, ingest over 1TB of data per day and process over $1MM per day in sales, while maintaining a 99.9+% uptime.
Challenges You'll Solve
- Ship technically challenging projects end-to-end in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Have the opportunity to very meaningfully propel the business forward, and recognize the impact of your work on the company’s business metrics and user experience
- Own features, services, caches, and databases, including: deployment, monitoring, debugging, and testing
- Write production-ready, well-tested code in your first week
- Be data-driven and close to the customer, performing experiments for nearly everything you launch
- Work on a combination of frontend and backend work across multiple services and codebases
Our Tech
- We use a state of the art architecture powered by microservices written primarily in Python (Flask and FastAPI) and Node (Express and NextJS). We use React (with TypeScript) on the frontend, and Postgres/Redis for storage and caching
- We use Gitlab for version control and CI/CD, and our infrastructure is hosted on AWS (using Kubernetes)
- We invest heavily in monitoring and automated alerting using Datadog
- We use Amplitude client-side metrics and experimentation, and Snowflake for our data warehouse
About You
- You have at least 8 months of web development work experience, preferably with exposure to a dynamic, startup environment
- You have experience working with a modern frontend JS framework (ex. React, Vue, Angular), and have worked with web servers
- You learn quickly, regardless of the languages and technologies used
- You have experience taking ownership and shipping entire features end-to-end
- You thrive on decoding intricate problems with logical, well-reasoned solutions
- You are interested in working on both the frontend and backend components of features
- You are interested in working with React on the frontend and Python/Node on the backend
We've Got You Covered
- Compensation: we pay our Interns top-of-market
- $300 One-time home office set up allowance
- $25/Week UberEats allowance on Fridays
- $300/Term Learning and Development allowance
- $120/Term Fitness/Wellness allowance
- Top Talent: work with the best in the world, including Engineers and Leadership from Google, Facebook, Wish, YouTube, Uber, and more.
- Build Something Great: most importantly, build a product used by millions around the world - have ownership, have impact, and do great work.
We Believe in Equal Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If needed, please notify our Talent Acquisition Partner.