Who Are We?
PledgX (pledgx.com) was founded in June 2020 by four entrepreneurs in technology, banking, big data, and trade finance with a mission to transform the process of assessing, guaranteeing, and monitoring performance risk in the construction industry. The founders have a proven record of accomplishment in building ideas into valuable companies harnessing state-of-the-art technologies.
PledgX is building a platform that connects stakeholders (owners, contractors, bonding companies, and brokers) to a single source of information on contract performance. The platform provides insights to bonding issuers that enable them to underwrite a contractor’s risk at the onset and then continue to assess and manage that risk through the life of each bonded project.
What We are Looking For
We are looking for a Full-Stack Developer (full-time internship role leading to regular employment) who will be responsible for developing and maintaining technical capabilities and products to meet our customer needs. You should be comfortable with being responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. You should possess excellent programming skills and a passion for developing fully-fledged platforms. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.
The candidate should be able to:
- Influence and propose ways to improve deliveries and the product.
- Operate independently with limited guidance and oversight.
- Apply a new perspective on existing solutions to solve complex problems.
- Make decisions within guidelines and policies that impact a range of customer, operational, process, or project activities.
- Develop work plans for short-term assignments of moderate complexity.
Your job responsibilities:
- Take part in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
- Write quality code to develop functional web applications.
- Develop and maintain UI tests with UI/Product Designer to optimize performance.
- Debug applications and detect and fix errors.
- Work with APIs to integrate UI elements with server-side logic.
- Collect, analyze and document technical and design requirements.
- Ability to create reusable code and libraries for future use.
You need to have:
- Strong knowledge of Database programming (e.g., SQL, StoreProcs, and Triggers)
- Strong knowledge of front-end languages (e.g., HTML, React.js, and CSS)
- Proven experience with programming languages like Java, Kotlin and Python
- Excellent understanding of the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) process
- Good practical experience with CMS framework and Shell scripts
- Good teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Knowledge, Spring Boot & Spring Framework
- NLP and ML programming, building AI models, would be advantageous
This internship is funded by the Government of Canada and work terms are under the Youth Employment Program. Please more details and your eligibility for the program here Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) - Youth Employment Program - Program Details ‐ Youth Digital Gateway ‐ Canada.ca before applying for this role.
