161 Bay Street (93021), Canada, Toronto,Toronto, Ontario,
Intern, Backend Software Engineer - Team Planet Express - Winter 2026

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Will obtain a Bachelor’s degree or higher from January 2026 or later
• Familiarity with application development using any backend programming language, and JavaScript.
• Good communication, presentation, and writing skills
• Good understanding of testing fundamentals
• Able to work within a team setting and actively participate and collaborate in team discussion

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with backend technologies such as Python, Java, Apache Airflow, AWS EMR, Glue, Lambda, S3.
• Experience with version control technology i.e. Git
• Experience with Jenkins CI/CD, ETL data pipelines, microservices, API design / integration

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an engineer on the Planet Express you will be working with a highly collaborative, diverse mix of engineers to enhance the product vision to deliver new credit card products to the market. You will have the opportunity to work on different layers of the technology stack (Python, Java, AWS, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Snowflake, OneLake) and collaborate with many external teams to help achieve our mission. You will be involved in building infrastructure, feature development, testing (unit test, component test and integration test), deployment, monitoring and fixing cyber security and vulnerability fixes.

• IDE: IntelliJ, Visual Studio
• Language: Python, Java AWS: EMR, Glue, S3, Lambda, Route53, Security Groups, IAM roles
• Monitoring Tools: Splunk, New Relic, Cloudwatch
• CI/CD: Jenkins, OnePipeline (Capital One’s inner-sourced CICD pipeline)
• Data Infrastructure: Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, ETL pipelines, Big Data, Snowflake/OneLake/Delta Lake

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work as part of a dynamic team throughout the software development life cycle
• Develop code to meet story acceptance criteria
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure high-level quality output
• Ensure adherence to continuous improvement practices as required to meet quality, and time to market imperatives
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, design and brainstorming sessions
• Collaborate with Product and Analyst stakeholders to implement enhancements or new applications
• Technical Documentation for analysis, test results and release.
• Learn and build AWS cloud infrastructure on the job
• Have fun with the team