Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Work on a core Search API in a product-led SaaS business sits close to the engine that customers depend on every day. This internship stands out because it targets foundational platform concerns—resource efficiency, startup behavior, database load, and request throttling—areas that directly influence reliability and cost at scale in multi-tenant SaaS systems.
For someone building a SaaS engineering career, this kind of platform work develops instincts that transfer across companies: measuring and improving performance, designing services that behave predictably under load, and balancing product demands with operational constraints. The role also signals exposure to modern delivery practices common in SaaS—ticket-driven execution, code reviews, and shipping changes that reach real client environments—without being limited to a sandbox project.
This is best suited to an intern who prefers systems-oriented problems over purely feature-focused work, and who learns well through iterative feedback with a mentor and team rituals. It will particularly fit candidates motivated by understanding how APIs evolve over time, and who are comfortable navigating ambiguity while improving existing services rather than building greenfield prototypes.
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Job Description
What does it take to scale a core search platform powering experiences for global clients?
Are you curious about how large-scale search systems work and motivated to make them faster, smarter, and more efficient? Coveo is looking for a Software Developer intern to join our Search API team in Research & Development. Your mission? Explore how we can evolve and scale the Search API to reduce memory usage, improve startup time, lower database load, and increase throttling accuracy.
The Search API team orchestrates the services that drive searches vital to our client's businesses and empower administrators with a programmable query transformation system. As an intern, you’ll contribute to a strategic initiative that directly impacts Coveo’s ability to scale for the future.
Your impact, day to day:
Engage actively in daily stand-up meetings to discuss progress, roadblocks, and plans. Collaborate with team members to ensure alignment and effective communication.
Manage and resolve assigned Jira tickets, ensuring timely completion of tasks.
Contribute to real-world projects that will be implemented for Coveo's clients. This can include coding, testing, and deploying solutions that meet customer requirements and enhance their experience.
Develop your skills by drawing on your mentor’s expertise. Watch, learn, and apply the best practices, methodologies, and strategies used in project management and software development.
Take an active role in code review sessions. Offer constructive feedback and receive advice on how to raise the quality of your code, follow best practices and strengthen your programming skills.
The Essentials:
You are currently studying Software Engineering or Computer Science in a Bachelor's degree or higher in the province of Québec.
You are able to work from one of our offices 2 days a week. Our hybrid work model offers flexibility, you can benefit from face-to-face learning from your team on office days while home days allow you to focus and complete complex work.
You are legally entitled to work full-time in Canada for the duration of the 15 week internship.
Think you’ve got what it takes? Let’s see!
You have experience in Git, Scala, an object oriented programming language, and knowledge of web technologies, with experience with AWS and/or Kubernetes as a bonus.
You have completed an internship in a similar role.
You have a strong sense of ownership and are proud of what you create.
You strive to grow and aren't afraid to ask questions.
You’re passionate about the tech industry and lead with a proactive mindset.
You’ve participated in some hackathons and/or have a few personal projects.
Join the Coveolife!
You don’t need to check every single box; passion goes a long way and we appreciate that skills are transferable.
Send us your application, we want to hear from you!
We encourage all candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background.
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