AI-Driven Retail Lending Engineer Intern

EQ Bank; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 21,000 - 34,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive discretionary bonus

Market leading RRSP match program

Medical, dental, vision, life, and dis

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Maternity/Parental top-up

Generous vacation policy and personal

Professional development and Career

Job summary

EQ Bank, Canada’s Challenger Bank, seeks an Intern – Retail Lending AI Engineer in Toronto. You’ll design, develop, test, and support RESTful APIs, ETL integrations, Power Platform solutions, and AI‑enabled workflows within the Retail Lending Technology team.

You will contribute to secure, scalable microservices, LLM integrations, and automated processes, while collaborating across teams in an Agile environment at EQ Bank’s Toronto offices.

Qualifications

• Enrollment in a Bachelor’s degree program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Academic, internship, or co‑op experience in software development or technology delivery.
• Exposure to API development, integration, or enterprise application environments is preferred.
• Foundational knowledge of RESTful API development.
• Basic understanding of ETL concepts and integration patterns.
• Exposure to AI-enabled solutions, including LLM integrations, intelligent agents, or workflow automation (nice to have).
• Familiarity with J2EE/JEE frameworks such as Spring MVC, Spring Security, Hibernate, OAuth (nice to have).
• Basic experience with SQL Server databases.
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks (JUnit) and version control tools such as Git.
• Exposure to Jira, Confluence, or similar collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Support the design, development, testing, and maintenance of RESTful APIs, ETL integrations, Power Platform solutions, and AI‑enabled workflows.
• Assist with requirements analysis and contribute to functional and non‑functional technical solutions.
• Support development of microservices, LLM integrations, intelligent agents, and workflow automations.
• Participate in Agile SCRUM activities and support sprint delivery.
• Perform unit testing, support QA triage, documentation, code reviews, and incident resolution.
• API and integration modernization initiatives within Lending Technology.
• Power Platform automation and AI‑assisted workflow projects.
• Proof‑of‑concept initiatives involving LLM‑based solutions and intelligent agents.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, QA, Business Analysis, and Project Management teams.
• Support coordination with external vendors and internal IT teams during delivery and production support.

Skills

RESTful APIs

API development

Spring Framework

Jira

Confluence

Git

SQL Server

Unit testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

Spring MVC

OAuth

Job description

EQ Bank, Canada’s Challenger Bank, seeks an Intern – Retail Lending AI Engineer in Toronto. You’ll design, develop, test, and support RESTful APIs, ETL integrations, Power Platform solutions, and AI‑enabled workflows within the Retail Lending Technology team.

You will contribute to secure, scalable microservices, LLM integrations, and automated processes, while collaborating across teams in an Agile environment at EQ Bank’s Toronto offices.