Application Developer - Co-op

Employment Type: Student

Work Environment: We offer a hybrid work environment that offers flexibility to our employees in balancing in-office (2 days per week OR 15 hours per week in a Wawanesa office) and remote work. You may work from any of the following locations: Winnipeg, MB; Toronto (North York), ON; Kitchener, ON; Ottawa, ON.

Working Business Language: English

Salary: At Wawanesa, salary is only one component of a holistic, comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our employees. In addition to salary, full-time and part-time permanent employees are eligible for an annual bonus plan, leave of absence top-up programs and provided with generous vacation time, personal days, premium free benefits and pension plan. The salary offered for this role is determined with consideration to various factors, including but not limited to: your work location, local labour market conditions, external market salary data, internal pay equity and the knowledge, skills, experience and anticipated proficiency in the role. The salary offered is within the following range: $26.48/hour - $33.10/hour.

About The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company

Founded in 1896, The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company is one of Canada’s largest mutual insurers, fully owned by its more than 1.8 million members. Headquartered in Winnipeg, Wawanesa is the parent company of WSI™, a specialty insurer delivering tailored solutions built around unique needs; Wawanesa Life, a provider of life insurance products; and Western Financial Group, a leading national distributor of personal and commercial insurance.

Wawanesa is committed to helping communities thrive in a changing world. The company invests more than $4 million annually in charitable initiatives, including $2.5 million each year to support people and communities on the front lines of climate change. Learn more at wawanesa.com.

We are currently seeking dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in a dynamic environment, embrace change, and are eager to gain diverse experience while advancing their careers as part of a growing team.

JOB OVERVIEW

The Enterprise Architecture team helps shape how Wawanesa uses technology. We’re looking for an AI Developer co-op with hands-on agentic AI experience to help us build internal tools and try out new AI technologies. You’ll work closely with our architects on real projects. This is a student term position, with a start date of January 11, 2027 and end date of April 23, 2027. The deadline to apply for this role is Friday, October 16, 2026.

Job Responsibilities

• Help build internal tools and AI agents for the architecture team.
• Build proof-of-concepts, which are small projects to test whether a new AI tool or framework works for us.
• Help build our Technology Radar, a tool that tracks the technologies we care about and shows which ones we use, which ones we’re testing and which ones we’re watching.
• Write simple documentation and share what you find with the team.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Currently enrolled in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related program.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs or AI agents, through coursework, personal projects or hackathons.
• Familiarity with at least one agent framework or approach, such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel or MCP (Model Context Protocol).
• Programming experience in Python.
• Basic understanding of prompting, tool calling and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Curious, willing to learn and comfortable asking questions.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Assets

• Experience building a simple web app or user interface.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), or AI services like Amazon Bedrock or Azure AI Foundry.
• Experience with Git or GitHub.
• A portfolio or GitHub project that shows something you’ve built with AI.

Diversity Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

At Wawanesa, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) and believe that our strength lies in the diversity of our people – this is supported by having a representative workforce.

We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, including racialized persons, women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender-diverse and neurodiverse individuals, and anyone can contribute to the further diversification of thought and ideas.

We aim to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all candidates. If you require accommodations during any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out in confidence to View email address on click.appcast.io [View email address on click.appcast.io].

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Please note that the recruitment process for this position may involve the use of AI tools to screen, assess, or select applicants. All final decisions are taken or reviewed by human recruiters and human hiring leaders in compliance with all applicable legislation.