Junior Developer Co-op

About Delta Intelligent Building Technologies (Canada) Inc. (formerly known as Delta Controls).

Delta Intelligent Building Technologies (Canada) Inc. (a subsidiary of Delta Electronics) is a leading building controls manufacturer with over 300 partners in more than 80 countries. For over three decades, we have provided innovative building automation solutions for commercial, healthcare, education, and leisure facilities. We delivered the world’s first fully integrated BACnet building solution for HVAC, lighting, and access control.

Job Summary

As a Junior Developer Co-op you will work as part of the research and product development teams to create machine learning powered solutions for worldwide use in the Building Controls industry. Your ability to innovate, problem-solve, and quickly adapt to change is very important in this role, as you will work on rapidly evolving products in a rapidly evolving industry. Prior experience writing high quality python code is a very firm requirement for this position. A strong candidate will show great interest and demonstrate proficiency in building web based and cloud-based applications using Python and JavaScript, with a detailed understanding of technology, adaptability, and excellent problem-solving skills.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain web-based applications using python, html, css, and javascript

• Contribute to system design and software architecture

• Deliver scalable, reusable, testable and clean code with proper commenting and version control

• Work with researchers, developers, and product managers to implement new features

• Create and maintain internal documentation that communicates research findings, product design, implementation, and changes

Preferred experience and qualifications

• Significant experience and demonstrated proficiency in developing applications using Python and web technologies (must be present and demonstrated in prior work experience)

• Ability to quickly read, deeply understand, and extend existing codebases

• Ability to explain, in detail, what each line of code is doing and the reasoning/intent behind it.

• Experience in front-end development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

• Experience in back-end web development using python

• Experience with relational databases (e.g., SQL)

• Experience developing services and applications for a Linux environment

• Strong programming fundamentals and debugging skills

Bonus qualifications

• Experience with using virtualization, Docker containers, container registry repositories and Kubernetes

• Experience integrating OpenAI compatible LLM APIs into an application

• Demonstrable experience in working with LLMs and other machine learning models

• Experience with cloud deployment and application development using Amazon Web Services

• Familiar with Nginx configurations

• Understanding of container concepts such as stateful vs stateless containers

• Experience with microservices and distributed systems architectures

• Experience in building scalable applications

• Knowledge of networking concepts such as DNS, TCP/IP, load balancers and routing

• Knowledge of Python web frameworks such as Flask and FastAPI.

• Knowledge of commercial building automation

• Knowledge of building science

• Knowledge and experience working with embedded systems

• Ability to continue for an additional co-op term

• Prior co-op experience is preferred

Work Location: Hybrid (Currently 3 days a week, subject to change)
City: Surrey
Type: Co-op
Salary: $25 per hour
This range reflects the minimum and maximum target payable for the base salary of new hires across all Canadian locations. Actual compensation may vary outside this range and is dependent on various factors.

Why work for us?

We provide fantastic opportunities to individuals passionate about business and technology. Delta Electronics products are the most energy efficient power products in the industry, and our company is perfect for those who want to create, design and build sustainable solutions using massively scalable, big-data architecture, with a strong focus on building automation. Here are some of the Delta perks you’ll receive from day 1!

• Employee & safety centric culture with the possibility of remote work

• Flexible hours and scheduling available

• Competitive total compensation along with generous vacation allowances

• Three weeks of vacation

• In-house & external training provided along with education support and opportunities for growth

• Company funded annual personal development budget

• Financial benefits & planning such as group RRSP & company match

• Employer paid premiums for extended healthcare and family-focused benefits (health, vision and dental)

• Travel insurance coverage and access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Wellness - onsite fitness center & company reimbursement for personal gym memberships

• Internal Recognition & Service Awards

• Employee Referral bonuses

• Transit accessible with free onsite parking

• Regular company events such as "Food Truck Fridays", Lunch & Learn and other planned activities