Winter 2026 Co-op

An engineering co-op for students who would rather ship something real than shadow someone who does.

Application instructions

Basic info

Name, date of birth, and other basic applicant details.

University & location

Tell us where you study, what you're studying, and where you're based.

GitHub profile

Share a link to your GitHub so we can see your work.

A project you've built

Link to or describe something you've made — what it does, and what was hard about it.

Video introduction

This is about getting to know you — who you are and what you're interested in. It's not meant to show off technical skills or be a scripted, pre-recorded walkthrough.

Anything else

Any other relevant background or resume information.

Need More Information?
Get in touch with us.

We'd love to hear from you. Reach out and let's start a conversation.

Email

hello@backboard.io

Need More Information?
Get in touch with us.

We'd love to hear from you. Reach out and let's start a conversation.

Email

hello@backboard.io

Office

Ottawa, ON, Canada

Need More Information?
Get in touch with us.

We'd love to hear from you. Reach out and let's start a conversation.

Email

hello@backboard.io

Office

Ottawa, ON, Canada

What the co-op is

A winter term inside the team that builds Backboard — memory, retrieval, routing, and the tooling around them. You take a real piece of the roadmap rather than a side project, and ship it to production with a named engineer reviewing your work.

What we want to assess

Whether you can take an ambiguous problem and come back with something that works. We care about what you have built and how you reason about it — not your coursework, and not how many frameworks you can name.

What you get

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Paid work

Paid hourly for the full term.

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Real ownership

You take a piece of the roadmap and ship it to production — not a side project that gets archived when you leave.

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Early access

Early access to everything we ship, plus dev credits of your own.

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Mentorship

A named engineer reviews your work every week, and you sit in the same reviews the rest of the team does.

Start with Backboard.

Start with Backboard.

Ship something real this winter.

Ship something real this winter.

Applications are read as they arrive, and we reply to every one.

Applications are read as they arrive, and we reply to every one.