Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for IT Development/Computer Science Students or Team

Our current web platform utilizes a client portal site that allows advisors and consumer to interact. Users have requested the functionality to contact advisors and/or agents directly. To address this, we would like to add a real-time chat function to our existing application.

The primary focus for the student will be:

• Creating a general chat application which can be easily ported to any other existing system.
• Evaluating current open source technologies to develop a set of tools we could implement in a new product build.
• Identify and evaluate new software applications and technologies to meet user and/or organization needs.
• Selecting the best technologies for creating a real-time application.
• Identify a new CRM system / new hosting platform for our website / procurement software to manage vendor contracts and payments.

Some of our requirements/recommended tools for this software are:

• A CRUD-based web application with forms to create, read, update and destroy data.
• A CRUB-based web application for admins to easily manipulate data.
• Real-time updates displaying changes on the web application without requiring a page refresh.
• A real-time chat application embedded within the platform.
• A REST API to handle backend manipulation of data, which is fully documented.
• A tool for running scheduled tasks periodically.
• Suggested applications should be compared based on features, security and reliability.

In addition, developing prototypes of custom software and systems for review and ideal implementation would be an asset.

A few areas of specific interest for us include:

• The reasoning behind technologies chosen.
• Documentation around models and attributes used to model any data.
• A brief wireframe or mock-up of the resulting system’s user interface.
• The product roadmap used to create the system and implementation plan including a list of user stories detailing all possible interactions with the system.
• The source code for the system, preferably in a source control system such as Git.
• A final presentation explaining what you built, what worked well, and what you would change.

Resources

Any existing materials we can provide to ensure a complete understanding and smooth collaboration.

Company website link: PersonalBanker Canada

Regards,

Team, PersonBanker Canada.

Will be available as needed to communicate and answer ongoing questions.