Internship Freelance Software Developer Jobs in Toronto, ON

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Meet the Team

You will join a collaborative software engineering team focused on building scalable, secure, and customer-centric enterprise solutions. The team partners closely with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-quality software, data integrations, and AI-enabled capabilities that simplify user experiences and support business outcomes.

Your Impact

As a Software Developer, you will design, develop, test, and support backend applications, data pipelines, APIs, and integrations aligned with Cisco's Design Thinking Principles. You will contribute to secure, reliable, and scalable software solutions while collaborating across teams to deliver impactful product features.

• Develop clean, functional, and maintainable code using software engineering best practices, including automated testing, version control, CI/CD, and secure coding principles.
• Build and support data engineering solutions, REST APIs, backend services, and system integrations using technologies such as Python, MuleSoft, Kafka, Airflow, GraphQL, and cloud platforms.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex issues across development and production environments, including root cause analysis and remediation planning when needed.
• Contribute to technical design documentation, code reviews, project planning, and delivery of high-quality engineering deliverables aligned to product roadmaps.
• Collaborate with peer partners across engineering, product, and design teams, while mentoring peers or interns and sharing knowledge across teams through documentation, presentations, or informal mentor.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree with 5+ years of related experience.
• Professional experience in software development with a focus on data engineering, system integration, and backend application development.
• Proficiency in Python for developing data pipelines, automation, REST APIs, and backend services.
• Hands-on experience with MuleSoft application development, including API design, implementation, integration, and deployment.
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Oracle, MongoDB, or equivalent database technologies.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including object-oriented design, Git, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and Agile development methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI-powered applications or integrating AI/ML capabilities into enterprise solutions.
• Hands-on experience with modern data and integration technologies such as Kafka, Airflow, GraphQL, Heroku, CI/CD pipelines, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar coding assistants.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience developing Salesforce integrations or working with Salesforce platform technologies.

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Rencontrez l'equipe

Vous rejoindrez une equipe collaborative d'ingenierie logicielle qui developpe des solutions d'entreprise evolutives et securisees, centrees sur les besoins des clients. L'equipe travaille en etroite collaboration avec les equipes de gestion de produits et de conception, ainsi qu'avec des parties prenantes de differentes fonctions, afin de creer des logiciels de haute qualite, des integrations de donnees et des capacites fondees sur l'intelligence artificielle qui simplifient l'experience utilisateur et contribuent aux resultats commerciaux.

Votre impact

En tant que developpeur de logiciels, vous concevrez, developperez, testerez et prendrez en charge des applications dorsales, des pipelines de donnees, des API et des integrations conformes aux principes de reflexion conceptuelle de Cisco. Vous contribuerez au developpement de solutions logicielles securisees, fiables et evolutives et collaborerez avec differentes equipes pour creer des fonctionnalites de produit a forte valeur ajoutee.

• Developper un code clair, fonctionnel et facile a maintenir en appliquant les pratiques exemplaires d'ingenierie logicielle, notamment les tests automatises, le controle de version, l'integration et le deploiement continus (CI/CD) ainsi que les principes de codage securise.
• Creer et prendre en charge des solutions d'ingenierie de donnees, des API REST, des services dorsaux et des integrations de systemes a l'aide de technologies comme Python, MuleSoft, Kafka, Airflow et GraphQL, ainsi que de plateformes cloud.
• Effectuer la resolution de problemes, deboguer et resoudre des problemes complexes dans les environnements de developpement et de production, notamment en analysant les causes premieres et, au besoin, en planifiant les mesures correctives.
• Contribuer a la documentation de conception technique, aux revues de code et a la planification des projets, et produire des livrables d'ingenierie de haute qualite conformes aux feuilles de route des produits.
• Collaborer avec vos collegues des equipes d'ingenierie, de produit et de conception, encadrer des collegues ou des stagiaires et partager vos connaissances entre les equipes au moyen de documentation, de presentations ou de mentorat informel.

Qualifications minimales

• Baccalaureat ou maitrise, avec au moins 5 ans d'experience connexe.
• Experience professionnelle en developpement de logiciels axee sur l'ingenierie de donnees, l'integration de systemes et le developpement d'applications dorsales.
• Maitrise de Python pour developper des pipelines de donnees, des solutions d'automatisation, des API REST et des services dorsaux.
• Experience pratique du developpement d'applications MuleSoft, notamment de la conception, de la mise en uvre, de l'integration et du deploiement d'API.
• Experience avec des bases de donnees relationnelles et NoSQL comme PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Oracle et MongoDB, ou avec des technologies de bases de donnees equivalentes.
• Solide comprehension des pratiques exemplaires d'ingenierie logicielle, notamment la conception orientee objet, Git, les revues de code, les tests automatises, l'integration et le deploiement continus (CI/CD) ainsi que les methodologies de developpement Agile.

Qualifications recherchees

• Experience de la creation d'applications propulsees par l'intelligence artificielle ou de l'integration de capacites d'intelligence artificielle et d'apprentissage automatique a des solutions d'entreprise.
• Experience pratique des technologies modernes de donnees et d'integration comme Kafka, Airflow, GraphQL, Heroku et les pipelines CI/CD, ou de plateformes similaires.
• Connaissance des outils de developpement logiciel assiste par l'intelligence artificielle comme GitHub Copilot et Cursor, ou d'assistants de programmation similaires.
• Experience avec des plateformes cloud comme AWS, Azure ou Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience du developpement d'integrations Salesforce ou de l'utilisation des technologies de la plateforme Salesforce.

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Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.