This is an internship for a Junior Swift Developer, based on-site in Toronto's Financial District along Bay Street. It pays a monthly stipend of $2,500 CAD and runs alongside a working iOS team rather than as a standalone training program.
The mobile team here maintains a live, published app, so interns aren't relegated to a separate practice project. Whatever gets assigned during the term is code that ships, gets used by real customers, and gets held to the same review standards as anything a full-time engineer submits.
What the internship involves
The mobile team splits work between two apps, one consumer-facing and one internal, and interns typically rotate through both over the course of the term rather than being locked to a single codebase.
- Contribute to building and maintaining the company's iOS app, working from tickets assigned by the mobile team lead
- Integrate REST APIs and third-party SDKs into existing app features
- Test app builds across different devices and iOS versions before anything ships to the App Store
- Fix bugs flagged by QA, and pair with senior iOS engineers on trickier issues
- Take part in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback on pull requests
Interns aren't handed the highest-risk parts of the app right away. Early tickets tend to be smaller and more contained, and the scope grows as the mentor gets a sense of how someone handles their first few pull requests.
A typical week might involve finishing a smaller UI feature on Monday, spending Tuesday tracking down why a table view flickers on older iPhones, and closing out the week reviewing a teammate's pull request for a payment-flow update.
Skills for this role
Interns are expected to know Swift reasonably well by the time they start, even without professional experience. Course projects and personal apps count toward that; the expectation is comfort with the language, not a job history.
- Working proficiency in Swift
- Familiarity with the iOS SDK and building layouts with UIKit
- Comfort working in Xcode day to day
- Basic understanding of REST APIs and how apps consume them
- Debugging skills, since a good chunk of the internship is chasing down why something isn't behaving as expected on a specific device or OS version
- Git for version control and collaborating with the rest of the team
Good to have
The SwiftUI experience is increasingly useful even on teams that are still primarily built on UIKit, as new features are gradually shifting the direction. Some exposure to Core Data or another local persistence approach helps, as does any prior experience writing unit tests with XCTest. Familiarity with the App Store submission and review process is a minor bonus, mostly useful for understanding why certain features are built the way they are. None of these are required to apply, but they're the kind of thing that comes up naturally in a technical interview if a candidate has them.
Education and experience
A bachelor's degree is the standard requirement here, most commonly in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related program, and it's fine if that degree is still in progress rather than finished. No prior professional experience is required for this role. Naukri Mitra generally sees this kind of internship attract students in their third or fourth year, sometimes alongside a personal app already published or in progress, which tends to help more in an interview than coursework alone. A first-year or second-year student with a genuinely strong personal project shouldn't rule themselves out either, since the technical bar matters more here than where someone is in their degree timeline.
Pay and what comes with it
The stipend for this internship is $2,500 CAD per month, paid on the same schedule as the rest of the team rather than as a lump sum at the end of the term.
- Direct mentorship from senior team members throughout the internship
- A certificate of completion at the end of the term
- Real potential to convert into a full-time offer for strong performers
- Extended health and dental coverage
- Statutory vacation entitlements, as required under Ontario employment standards
The mentorship piece matters more than it might sound. Interns here are paired with a specific senior engineer rather than left to figure things out from documentation alone, and that person reviews most of an intern's early pull requests. That relationship tends to shape how quickly someone's code quality improves over the term, more than any single training session could.
Location
The role is fully on-site in the Financial District on Bay Street, one of Toronto's busiest downtown corridors, so easy access by transit is worth factoring in given how tight parking and street traffic can get there. For students specifically looking for a swift developer internship in Toronto, this one is close to a cluster of financial and tech firms within a few blocks, making it easy to compare notes with peers doing similar internships nearby. Swift developer salary in Toronto for junior full-time roles tends to be well above this internship stipend, so this position works best as a stepping stone toward that rather than as a long-term arrangement on its own. Students commuting from a campus outside the downtown core should build in extra travel time during morning rush hour, since the surrounding subway lines get crowded well before nine.
Applying
A resume with any shipped app, whether on the App Store or just a GitHub repo with working code, will carry more weight here than a long list of coursework. Include a link if there's a project worth looking at, along with a short note on what problem it solves and what part was actually written solo versus with a team. The interview process typically includes a brief technical discussion of Swift fundamentals and a walkthrough of any existing project work, rather than a whiteboard-style algorithm test. Coming prepared to explain a design decision from a past project, and why it was made that way, tends to matter more than memorizing syntax details ahead of time.
