MEMOTEXT is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 1 computer science student from September 2020 to December 2020.

The virtual intern student will work in an interdisciplinary manner with the data science, business development, and engineering teams to expand MEMOTEXT program patient experience and engagement through different modalities (IVR, SMS, Alexa, web, apps, etc.). In addition to supporting the development team, the student will have the opportunity to develop new strategies for patient engagement in digital health and publish as well as present their findings in (including but not limited to: a white paper, scientific article, blogs, conference talk, webinars). The student will be able to have real impact on the product offerings and on shaping the future state of digital health in Canada.

The primary focus for the student will be:

• Application Development Support – Provide assistance to developers during application feature creation, updates, and maintenance. Would require knowledge/experience in working in PHP in Laravel development environment, as well as experience in HTML5, JavaScript ES5. Also need to be familiar with CSS3, SCSS and jQuery.
• Database Analysis & Documentation – Support database admin in documentation of database schemas, stored procedures and overall database layout. Would need to be proficient in Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.
• Application Programming Interfaces – Support design and development of existing API to simplify it, designing a new API, and creating or updating public-facing documentation.

Our goal at the end of this experience is:

• Application Development Support - For the student to gain experience in creating a fully functioning application by helping us design, develop, and maintain current and new features/applications.
• Database Analysis & Documentation - For the student to help us improve our data processes and documentation.
• Application Programming Interfaces - For the student to help us redesign, develop, and document existing and new APIs.

Other student responsibilities can include:

• To contribute to and support the overall design of our architecture to ensure optimal performance and sustainability
• Software vendor research and evaluation
• Assisting with other process improvement projects
• Unit and integration testing
• Responding to IT/Service Desk requests

We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern(s) using these communication tools: email, slack, Jira, Microsoft Teams