Intern, Backend Software Engineer - Team Arcus - Fall 2025

161 Bay Street (93021), Canada, Toronto,Toronto, Ontario,
Intern, Backend Software Engineer - Team Arcus - Fall 2025
About Capital One Canada
For over 20 years, we've been on a mission to change banking for good and build relationships by making credit accessible, simple, intuitive and rewarding. We want to help Canadians succeed with credit, because we believe in people - in our customers, in our associates, and in talent like you!
About the Team
Team Arcus is a group of devoted & talented engineers who have the passion for developer experience and engineering excellence. We provide leadership and resources to facilitate a better developer experience across all lines of business within Canadian Studios. By reducing friction in producing, securing, deploying and observing software, we uplift the entire Canada Studio, decreasing time to market and developer satisfaction
About the Role
On Team Arcus, you'll have the opportunity to learn, design and build software tooling that our software engineers will use on a daily basis. We are on a mission to reduce developer frustration by understanding their pain points, partnering with our US teams and providing our Canadian Tech Teams with the tools they need to be successful.
You will have the opportunity to work on different layers of technology and collaborate with external teams to help achieve our mission. You will be involved in building infrastructure, data engineering, testing automation, deployment, monitoring and facilitating the fixing of cyber security and vulnerability fixes.

• IDE: GoLand, VSCode
• Language: Go
• AWS: Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Security Groups, IAM roles
• Monitoring Tool: Cloudwatch, Splunk, New Relic
• CI/CD: Jenkins

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Will obtain a Bachelor's degree or higher from January 2026 or later
• Familiarity with application development using any backend programming language
• 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 AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and DynamoDB and Go programming Language
• Experience with version control technology i.e. Git
• Experience with Jenkins CI/CD, microservices, API design / integration

Application Details:

• If you are a University of Waterloo candidate, p lease use your WaterlooWorks email address in your application on WorkDay to ensure your application is not lost
• Please ensure you attach your work term records, resume, and transcript in the attachment section under Resume/CV when you create your profile to apply on WorkDay
• Ensure you complete the assessment no later than May 11, 2025 @ 11:59PM

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Capital One Canada is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants and will meet the needs of those requiring reasonable accommodations.
If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at [email protected] . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.
For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to [email protected]
Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.
Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).