Salesforce & GTM Developer Intern (January 2027 - 4 Months - Toronto)

IBM

Toronto

Hybrid

CAD 65,000 - 101,000

Part time

3 days ago

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Job summary

IBM Consulting in Toronto is offering a Salesforce & GTM Developer Intern role for January 2027. You’ll work with our Salesforce practice to support solution development, customization, and platform innovation, gaining exposure to designing, building, and delivering Salesforce solutions.

This four-month internship is ideal for students pursuing CS/SE, with hands-on Salesforce experience, REST API exposure, and a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

Currently enrolled in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated initiative in identifying business challenges, evaluating risks and trade-offs, recommending solutions, and implementing them through coursework, internships, extracurricular activities, or personal projects.
Ability to break down complex business and technical challenges into manageable tasks and actionable solutions.
Ability to manage competing priorities while delivering high-quality work on schedule.
Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences and translate requirements into technical solutions.
Ability to independently learn and apply new tools, technologies, and concepts in response to evolving project needs.

Responsibilities

Learn how Salesforce technology supports digital transformation.
Learn how AI agents and automation can improve user experiences.
Continuously build expertise in Salesforce and IBM technologies through hands-on learning and experimentation.
Design, develop, test, and debug Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWCs), and Flows, leveraging AI tools such as IBM Bob to accelerate delivery and address client business challenges.
Explore emerging technologies and innovative approaches by building proof-of-concepts (PoCs) and minimum viable products (MVPs) that demonstrate business value and uncover new opportunities.
Collaborate with consultants, architects, and clients to identify opportunities where Salesforce and IBM technologies can deliver measurable business outcomes.
Support go-to-market (GTM) initiatives by contributing to solution demos and presentations.
Capture and codify lessons learned into reusable assets, patterns, accelerators, and internal frameworks that enhance the Salesforce Practice's delivery capabilities.

Skills

CS/Engineering student

Initiative

Task decomposition

Prioritization

Technical communication

Self-learning

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

GitHub/Source control

REST APIs

PoCs/Tech experiments

Salesforce experience

Ownership

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
About Business Unit:
IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

Your role and responsibilities

We’re looking for a curious, analytical, and technically driven intern to join IBM’s Salesforce practice in a Technical Consultant (Developer) & GTM internship role. This position is ideal for someone interested in software development, system design, and platform engineering — with opportunities to explore a long‑term career inSalesforce development and digital transformation.
As an Intern, you’ll work closely with our consulting and GTM teams to support solution development, customization, and platform innovation. You’ll gain real exposure to how IBM designs, builds and delivers Salesforce solutions that help organizations transform the way they serve their customers, employees, citizens, and partners.
What You’ll Do

Learn how Salesforce technology supports digital transformation
Learn how AI agents and automation can improve user experiences
Continuously build expertise in Salesforce and IBM technologies through hands‑on learning and experimentation
Design, develop, test, and debug Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWCs), and Flows, leveraging AI tools such as IBM Bob to accelerate delivery and address client business challenges
Explore emerging technologies and innovative approaches by building proof‑of‑concepts (PoCs) and minimum viable products (MVPs) that demonstrate business value and uncover new opportunities
Collaborate with consultants, architects, and clients to identify opportunities where Salesforce and IBM technologies can deliver measurable business outcomes
Support go‑to‑market (GTM) initiatives by contributing to solution demos and presentations
Capture and codify lessons learned into reusable assets, patterns, accelerators, and internal frameworks that enhance the Salesforce Practice's delivery capabilities

What We’re Looking For

Curiosity & problem‑solving mindset — you enjoy breaking down technical challenges and building solutions
Strong analytical thinking — able to understand requirements and translate them into logical implementations
Interest in technology & development — especially how platforms like Salesforce enable scalable solutions
Attention to detail — able to write clean, accurate code and configurations
Team‑oriented mindset — enjoys collaborating with cross‑functional teams
Clear communicator — able to explain technical concepts and document your work effectively
Growth mindset — eager to learn new tools, languages, and frameworks in a fast‑evolving ecosystem
Flexibility in commuting — able to travel to IBM and client sites for in‑person collaboration as needed

Why This Role?

This is more than an internship. You’ll gain hands‑on experience in Salesforce development, platform customization, and technical solution delivery while learning from experienced technical consultants. If you’re excited about building technology solutions and exploring a career in Salesforce development and consulting, this is the perfect place to start.
This position resides in Toronto and is a 4‑month work term commencing in January 2027. All applicants must be eligible to work full‑time in Canada and enrolled full‑time in an eligible post‑secondary program. It is mandatory that applicants return to full‑time studies upon completion of the work term. Candidates pursuing Bachelor's or Master's degrees are eligible. MBA and PhD candidates are not eligible for this opportunity..

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Skills & Experience

Currently enrolled in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a related discipline
Demonstrated initiative in identifying business challenges, evaluating risks and trade‑offs, recommending solutions, and implementing them through coursework, internships, extracurricular activities, or personal projects
Ability to break down complex business and technical challenges into manageable tasks and actionable solutions
Ability to manage competing priorities while delivering high‑quality work on schedule
Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non‑technical audiences and translate requirements into technical solutions
Ability to independently learn and apply new tools, technologies, and concepts in response to evolving project needs

Preferred technical and professional experience

Familiarity with GitHub, pull requests, branching strategies, and source control best practices
Exposure to designing and consuming REST APIs
Experience building PoCs or experimenting with emerging technologies, while collaborating with diverse stakeholders to refine and validate solutions
Hands‑on Salesforce experience (e.g., Agentforce) through Trailhead or personal projects
Ability to take ownership of tasks, navigate ambiguity, and deliver results in a fast‑paced environment

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on‑going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full‑time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job‑related skills and experience for this position.

Job Title

Salesforce & GTM Developer Intern (January 2027 - 4 Months - Toronto)

Job ID

130067

City / Township / Village

Toronto

State / Province

Country

Canada

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work