Student, Full-Stack Developer (Summer 2025, 4 Months) – Omers

Job Title: Student, Full-Stack Developer (Summer 2025, 4 Months)

Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description: Choose a workplace that empowers your impact.Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and experience. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.We are a purpose-driven, dynamic and sustainable pension plan. An industry leading global investor with teams in Toronto to London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe. We embody the values of our 600,000+ members, placing their best interests at the heart of everything we do.Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, support the communities we live and work.Don’t just work anywhere — come build tomorrow together with us.Know someone at OMERS or Oxford Properties? Great! If you’re referred, have them submit your name through Workday first. Then, watch for a unique link in your email to apply.We’re seeking 2 talented Full Stack Developer co-op students to join our pension technology development team as we develop modern web applications using the latest web technologies and paradigms. We operate in an agile environment with daily stand-ups and work closely with other functions such as stakeholders, product owners, QA testers, back-end team and business analysts. The pensions technology is relied on by over 500,000 members. We are located in downtown Toronto with a newly renovated office including two kitchens, snacks, Microsoft surface hubs, and sit/stand work desks. We pride ourselves on diversity, inclusion, and building a great team culture where everyone feels welcomed, supported, and empowered.We encourage continuous learning, and you will be working with many skilled developers with a wealth of experience to guide you. Your work will be meaningful and help drive OMERS further into the future.Your personality?

• Outgoing
• Problem solver
• Strong communications skills
• Desire to learn
• Team player

What will you do?Quickly synthesize business requirements, research, and design principles into well-considered applications. You will need to be able to identify and solve problems; explore different design solutions and present best options to the project team members and stakeholders. Within each sprint you will pick up tasks, develop, test, and deliver to enterprise applications in production. With each release you will be able to see the impact of your work in the real world.What are your responsibilities?

• Consume and understand business, functional and technical requirements presented by the BA team
• Participating in solution evaluation, analyze feasibility of features, and develop proof of concepts when needed to explore a new technology or idea
• Collaborate with other team members to interactively design and develop new applications and features
• Develop and maintain complete end-to-end cross-browser compatible web applications with a high level of code quality
• Put stability and security first
• Develop technical documents to accurately represent the design and code, as well as commenting your code.
• Create unit tests for your code to a high level of coverage
• Participating in design review sessions with project teams, acquiring consensus and approval on designs and documentation

To succeed in this role, you have:

• HTML
• CSS with pre-processors like Sass being an asset
• Javascript ES6
• Node.js
• Object-oriented and functional programming experience
• ExpressJS
• ReactJS, with associated testing and state libraries as an asset (Jest, Redux, Thunk)
• MSSQL or MySQL, MongoDB or other no-SQL databases
• Web services experience; building and consuming: especially RESTful APIs
• AWS, Google GCP, Azure, Heroku and other cloud platform experience is an asset.
• Docker, Kubernetes experience is an asset
• Git and Github/Gitlab workflow, git command line is an asset.

What’s in it for you

• A team that is ready to focus on your growth and development
• Continuous learning across different areas of the business
• Opportunity to be part of the student community at OMERS & Oxford
• An orientation program to set you up for success during your work term!
• Networking and educational session with different leaders across the business

IMPORTANT: Application InstructionsTo ensure your application is submitted to our applicant tracking system accurately, please follow the instructions below.Please include all required documents (Resume, Cover Letter, Unofficial Transcript, etc.) in one combined file. Your application may be submitted in PDF of Microsoft Word format.As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

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