Internship – Data Engineering and Data Science

Company Description

Take a seat on the rocket ship and join us as a summer intern within our technology department.

Who are we?   We’re a global team of builders, listeners and problem-solvers who are relentlessly focused on making life simple, so our customers can get back to growing their business, engaging consumers and doing what they love.

Job Description

About the opportunity

At Xplor, the Central Technology Team has one main purpose: to enable and complement the business strategies and goals while solving real problems for our customers and users.

We have dozens of applications in our everyday-life verticals that all have their technology uniqueness and their individual purpose. We also use some of the latest technology in Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Containers and are constantly looking to find innovative new ways to meet the challenges of running a unique global business.

As a Data Engineering or Data Science Intern, you will work as part of the Data Engineering and Operations team who is focused on transitioning to new technologies and simplifying our technical landscape.  These internships will be involved in the following:

• sales pipelines to identify patterns in connect and/or conversion rates
• explore failure predictions and real-time fraud detection in payments
• configure chatbots for service teams and other natural language applications

You will have a buddy and an entire team to ensure you are learning, gaining experience, supporting and having fun!

What will I get out of the internship?

• Ability to rotate across the team to get full exposure across several systems and approaches.
• Ability to write code, test, provide analysis and recommendations for improvements.
• Use of agile development and modern frameworks
• Exposure to data engineering and data science at an organization that continues to grow with an opportunity to work on meaningful projects at a global level

Location:  This position will be a 100% work from home with virtual interactions with managers and teams globally via video meeting technologies.

Internship:  Internships are a 9-week program, running starting June 5 through August 4th.   The internships are a 40 hour a week with standard Monday-Friday business working hours.   The hourly rate for the internship is $20/hr.  We understand that students do have family vacation time planned over the summer, the recruiting team and managers will discuss time off needs during the recruiting process to determine if that will prevent a barrier to the program. 

Qualifications

What would make me a good candidate? 
 

Required Qualifications:  

• Actively enrolled in an undergraduate computer science, data engineering, data science or relevant information technology degree
• Completed coursework and knowledge of the following:  data mining, Python and SQL
• Understanding of industry best practices data engineering and data science principals
• Ability to communicate both written and verbally effectively
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

 Desired Qualifications  

• Experience writing code, testing and analysing results
• Knowledge, formal coursework or experience Powershell scripting and python based assets
• Knowledge, formal coursework or projects working with large scale data sets

At Xplor, we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersection of differences - people of different cultures, generations, disciplines, and lived experiences. So even if you think you don’t quite tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

Life at Xplor

You’ll be part of a global network of talented colleagues who support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Joining Xplor’s Central Technology (CT) team

There are over 600 Xplorers in our CT team that work as one team across the world. You'll get the chance to engage through Communities of Interest in Technologies (CIT), our Architectural Advisory Board or work on DOOR (Develop Only Once and Reuse).

Being a technology company selling SaaS-based software solutions, you can see your work clearly in the success of the business. You'll be a strategic enabler via world-class capabilities fostering product development and innovation.

Ready to apply? 

To start your application, please submit your resume and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "moonshot" at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.

More about us 

Xplor Technologies is a global platform integrating SaaS solutions, embedded payments, and Commerce Accelerating Technologies to help businesses succeed. Xplor provides enterprise-grade SaaS solutions for businesses in “everyday life” verticals: Childcare & Education; Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global cloud-based payment processing platform.

Xplor Technologies serves over 78,000 customers that processed over $36 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2022. 

Good to know

To be considered for employment in the United States, you must be legally authorized to work in the US. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/us/careers. 

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/us/recruitment-faqs.

Xplor is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We're dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community. 

All Information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. 

Xplor is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Xplor will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us via talent@xplortechnologies.com. 

We’re committed to replying to each application and look forward to getting in touch with you soon.