Job Description:

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 world's 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.

We’re a highly collaborative team that applies innovative solutions to challenging problems. We believe strongly in automation, and we invest heavily into it to make that possible. We’re also committed to doing things right and always looking for ways to do them better.

We are looking for a Junior Full Stack Engineer for a 16 month internship to maintain and build complex, elegant and high-performant web interfaces that will help discover more physical and digital content for millions of users as part of our Core UI team. The ideal candidate will embrace 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 you will 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 as a priority by writing tests.
• Improve developer productivity by refactoring key areas of the Core UI codebase.
• Willingness to work with multiple frameworks and programming languages.
• Communicate effectively to flag challenges or blockers to deliver on time.

What will you bring to the team:

• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication skills and collaboration across teams.
• Some knowledge of RESTful API applications.
• Passionate and motivated to learn new technologies.
• Knowledge of Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3.
• Motivated to work closely with UX to ensure technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Interested in building highly responsive consumer web application interfaces at scale.

Bonus Points for:

• React, Ruby, Rails knowledge.
• Previous programming experience or any other object-oriented language.
• Knowledge of cloud-native applications.
• Basic computer networking knowledge (Connectivity issues, LANs, firewalls, etc.)

BiblioCommons is an equal opportunity employer, we recruit, hire, train, promote and provide all other privileges of employment to qualified people without regard to age, race, colour, creed, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, marital status, citizenship status, ethnicity, familial status, religion, sexual orientation or any other classification for which discrimination is prohibited.