Learning Goals

By the end of the internship you will have learned:

• How to work in an Open Source company and interact with a worldwide community
• How to integrate in a multidisciplinary team with designers, engineers and managers
• What the software development lifecycle of a product is
• How to contribute to an extensible platform
• How to manage shared code ownership and code reviews
• How to test and deliver cross-browser implementations
• Informal details about build, development best practices and quality checks (backward compatibility, test coverage checks; unit, integration and functional tests)

Responsibilities, Projects & Skills

• Spoken and written English skills that will facilitate the communication with our international team
• Identify issues and areas of improvement for the product, and report them in our bug-tracking tool
• Design, implement and publish prototypes, improvements and fix bugs for our XWiki products, extensions and recommended applications
• Design, implement and publish Pro business applications and community extensions
• Respect deadlines and deliver good quality projects to the Open Source community
• Be proactive and contribute to the improvement of the XWiki Open Source platform and of the development of best practices across the teams

Technical requirements

• XWiki
• Languages: Java, JavaScript, Velocity, HTML, CSS, LESS
• Frameworks / Libraries: Bootstrap, JQuery, RequireJS (AMD), Vue.js
• Testing: unit testing (e.g. JUnit, Jasmine), mock objects (e.g. Mockito), automated UI testing (e.g. Selenium 4/Webdriver), coverage (e.g. JaCoCo)
• Database: Hibernate (ORM), SQL
• Tools that you will use: GitHub, JIRA, Maven, Eclipse, Jenkins, Element, Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge

Training & Meetings

• Office orientation
• An introduction to the XWiki company
• An introduction to the XWiki open source project
• Training on how to contribute an extension
• On the job training while testing the product, reporting issues and implementing fixes and new features
• Regular meetings with the mentors
• Final evaluation; assessment of the internship’s success

Duration

• The chosen candidate can expect a full-time internship during summer (Jul 1 - Sep 30)
• The daily schedule: 8 h/day in the 8-20 bracket

Payment & Benefits

• Paid internship
• Open plan office with fun activities (Table Football, WII / video games, board-games, etc.)
• Refreshments and fruits on the house
• Monthly team activities
• You will work on the latest generation of technical equipment
• Open and collaborative environment where your ideas are heard
• Casual dress code
• Flexible work schedule
• Work on an Open Source product and extensions that are used by users all over the world
• The majority of your work will be publicly available, so you can reference it in your portfolio
• Mentorship by experienced engineers that will help you develop your IT potential
• Possibility to join as a full time or part-time employee after the internship