Cursor Developer Jobs in Calgary, AB (NOW HIRING)

Worker Type: EmployeeJob Post End Date: 08/21/2026

About this opportunity:

Interested in starting your AI & Software Development career at the intersection of AI, data, and real-world business problems? Curious how modern AI tools and agentic systems are used in production? Want hands-on ownership while building things that matter?

If that sounds like you, we're hiring.

Join our AI Development team as we build the next generation of AI-powered digital products for the energy industry. We focus on practical, high-impact solutions that remove low-value work, support better decisions, and scale expertise across the business.

We're hiring a Software and AI Developer to join our agile Business Transformation group. This role is designed for an earlycareer software developer who wants to grow strong software engineering fundamentals while gaining real exposure to applied AI, modern platforms, and end-to-end product delivery.

You'll work closely with senior developers and engineers, product leads, and domain experts - contributing to production systems while being coached on design, quality, and engineering best practices.

This is a full-time, in-office role based in downtown Calgary.

What you'll do:

• Build Production Software: Create fullstack, production-grade applications used by business and field teams.

• Product Development Ownership: Own the end-to-end product development, working directly with stakeholders, domain experts and team members to progress solution development.

• Learn End-to-End Delivery: Participate across the lifecycle iterating through - problem definition, design, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

• Apply AI in Practice: Help integrate generative AI, analytics, and automation into real workflows under guidance from senior engineers.

• Translate Business Problems: Work with domain experts to understand operational problems and help turn them into working software.

• Develop Engineering Foundations: Write clean, testable code; learn system design basics; and follow secure, reliable development practices.

• Grow Through Mentorship: Learn by pairing with senior engineers, receiving code reviews, and continuously improving your craft.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience.

• Software Development Experience: 1-3 years of software development experience, including professional, co-op, practicum, internship, personal, or open-source projects. Experience in tech industry, oil and gas/energy industry, engineering, industrial operations, finance, supply chain, or business transformation teams is highly valued.

• Full-Stack Application Development: Experience or exposure building web applications using modern full-stack frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel, ASP.NET, or similar technologies as a demonstration of software engineering and product development capabilities. Experience with comparable frameworks may also be considered.

• Software Engineering Foundations: Understanding of core software engineering concepts including object-oriented programming, APIs, relational databases, data modeling, automated testing, version control, security, authentication and authorization, and modern software delivery practices.

• AI Application Development: Experience or exposure building AI-enabled applications using modern AI frameworks, APIs, and foundational large language models such as OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Llama, LangChain/LangGraph, Agno, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, CrewAI, AutoGen, PydanticAI, or similar technologies.

• Data & Platform Technologies: Experience or exposure working with databases, cloud services, storage technologies, analytics platforms, and modern data platforms such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Blob Storage, Redis, or similar technologies.

• Agentic Development: Experience in agentic software development practices and AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, or similar technologies.

• Curiosity & Growth Mindset: Demonstrated curiosity, self-learning, and practical problem-solving skills, with experience gained through hackathons, innovation challenges, technical communities, personal projects, or other collaborative learning opportunities.

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

This is a full-time, in-office role based in downtown Calgary.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT August 20th, 2026

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada's Best Employers in 2025. We're committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.

If you require accessibility assistance to complete the on-line application or otherwise apply for an open position with Cenovus, its subsidiaries and affiliates, please email careeropportunities@cenovus.com.

Who we are:

Ranked as one of Canada's Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We're committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus's downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

We're committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
• Health & dental benefits
• Substantial mental health coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Employee family assistance
• Virtual healthcare coverage

Our development philosophy

We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:

• Internal course offerings
• Education assistance for additional development
• Opportunities to work on special projects
• Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders

We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes-for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

• Our purpose: We energize the world to make people's lives better.
• Our values:
  • Protect what matters
  • Do it right
  • Make it better
  • Do it together

• Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.
  • Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
  • Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
  • Receive donation matching up to $10,000 annually.

• Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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