CSCF Web Application Dev in Spring 2024

We are excited to tell you more about the co-op position for developing web applications in CSCF (Computer Science Computing Facility).

We offer you the chance to work on real-world projects that make a real difference for our campus users.

Photo of former co-op Jamie Grove at her workstation. She is currently working at SNOLAB

Some CSCF co-op projects include

• a web application used to hire faculty members
• the exam management system used across campus to administer exams and assign seats
• the graduate admission system used across the Math Faculty
• our Inventory system, which integrates our equipment database with monitoring, campus DNS, and machine-room mapping
• we worked with Science Computing to help implement perceptions.uwaterloo.ca

Who we are

• CSCF is 24 full-time staff in various technical roles to keep computing environments running for Computer Science
• Within CSCF, you'll be working in the group for "Research and Special Projects".
• We're hiring two co-ops, reporting to Daniel Allen and Isaac Morland, who are CSCF software developers.

Your position

• writing well-designed, testable, efficient code in one or more of (python, js, PHP) with SQL.
• you'll be adding, improving, fixing features in one or more projects
• may involve tracking down subtle bugs
• largely independent work

Your projects

• depend on CSCF priorities for the term
• we will give you smaller projects at the beginning of term, with time to learn
• later in the term, we hope to have you working on larger pieces of the project
• we will support you proposing new project ideas that fit our priorities

Your work environment 

• We will supply you with a workstation, your choice of Ubuntu or MacOS, and whatever other tools you need.
• We currently work partly on campus and partly from home.
• You'll have a shared office in the Davis Centre, with access to a quiet lunch-room and nearby Timmy's.
• We have a 7-hour work-day (not including lunch) and 35-hour work-week, with flexibility
  • for example, let your supervisor know and you can take a day off and make up the time before or after

Collaboration and keeping in touch

• In general we have "core hours" that we are all available- 10am-3pm
• We use Microsoft Teams for remotely working together (chat, video meetings, screen-sharing)
• We document all our work in Request Tracker and git check-ins

Work Term dates

• We'll use the co-op suggested dates of May 6 - August 23, 2024, but these are open to change if you need to start later (or possibly want to end earlier or later.)

Salary

• is set to to the annual co-op average for Math Faculty