Software Engineering Intern/Co-op - 2026 Fall

IN-PERSON IN OUR KITCHENER OFFICE STARTING SEPT 2026. ONLY APPLY IF YOU CAN WORK LEGALLY IN CANADA.

The Role

Clearline's software engineering team is looking for intern/co-op who wants to ship real product inside a fast-moving startup.

You'll join a small, senior engineering team building Clearline's AI operating system for dealership revenue - a platform that captures, routes, and converts every inbound and outbound customer interaction across sales and service.

Joining an early stage hyper growth startup means you'll learn and do more in 4 months with us than you will in 1 year in a full-time role elsewhere (promise).

If you join us, you’ll be an early and influential team member in helping shape:

• Our company culture
• Our engineering practices
• Your personal development
• Set you up for either starting your own company or joining FAANG in future co-op terms/full-time

What You'll Do

• Ship real product: Design, build, test, and deploy customer-facing features across Clearline's web app and AI workflow platform.
• Full-stack ownership: Work across backend APIs, data pipelines, and front-end UI used by dealership teams to manage calls, texts, appointments, and lead follow-ups.
• AI-native development: Build and iterate on AI-driven workflows (voice, SMS, lead follow-up logic, routing, scoring). Use LLM tools to accelerate development and testing.
• Quality & reliability: Write unit and integration tests. Help monitor production performance and reliability for systems that dealerships rely on daily to capture revenue.
• Move fast: Tackle 1-day fixes, 1-week features, and small end-to-end projects. Participate in stand-ups, product reviews, and shipping cycles.
• Customer-driven building: Sit in on dealer calls, demos, and onboarding sessions to understand real-world workflows and pain points - then translate that into shipped improvements.
• Own outcomes: Ship code to production, monitor real usage, debug issues, and iterate based on live customer behavior.

What We're Looking For

• Enrolled in a computer-science, software-engineering, or related bachelor's program and eligible for a co-op/intern term (3rd-5th year preferred).
• Experience with at least one backend framework (e.g., Rails, Django, Node) and one front-end framework (React, Vue, or similar).
• Comfortable with basic SQL and Git/GitHub.
• Interest in building AI-powered products (LLMs, voice, automation, workflows) and using AI coding tools (Codex/Claude Code/Cursor, etc.).
• Product mindset: you care about UI/UX polish and understand that software exists to solve real operational problems.
• Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating with product, design, and go-to-market teams.
• Bias for action: you're comfortable with ambiguity, move quickly, and take ownership of what you ship.

Interview Process

Process overview

We want to keep the interview process very streamlined and easy. There are only 2 steps in the process.

1. Intro + initial screen (20 mins)

We’ll do a screening call to understand your background and your fit for the role.

Based on how well you do at this stage, you’ll be invited to the next round.

2. Technical interview (60 mins)

We’ll do an in-person interview to cover how you think. We’ll present a problem and see how you approach it.

3. Offer

If the technical interview goes well, you’ll get an offer in less than 24 hours after our last interview in the round.