Staples is business to business. You’re what binds us together.

We’re searching for you: fresh talent with new ideas, innovation, passion, and drive to bring to Staples. We have student and graduate opportunities where you’ll help the Staples, Inc. organization be more successful and productive while building a purposeful career. Whether you are looking for a summer internship, a co-op, or an entry-level role, we’ll help you develop the technical and soft skills you need to thrive in the future.

Target Start Date: June 1, 2026 - August 14, 2026 (11-week program)

What you bring to the table:

• Collaborative – able to build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Customer Focused – able to identify and understand internal or external customer needs and interests and deliver customer-centric solutions
• Inclusive – dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment consisting of diverse individuals from varying backgrounds and cultures
• Innovative – develop new insights; question conventional approaches; encourage new ideas; design and implement new solutions
• Self-Developer – actively seeks new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels

Position Overview: 

This candidate will develop, test, debug, and implement efficient technical solutions for complex business requirements provided in use cases and/or represented graphically. This solution will integrate with our existing automation and robotics solution running in our fulfillment centers. 

What You'll Be Doing:

• Understand requirements presented graphically and create a robust software solution that integrates well with existing automation and robotics solutions

• Code, test, and debug the software solution for the requirements

• Performs code reviews to verify changes meet development requirements and deploys and stages code in development environments

• Work closely with cross-functional teams

• Manage issues that can be fixed and enhancements that can be made to improve our software so that it becomes more robust, scalable, and efficient

• Quickly diagnose and troubleshoot errors that occur in both live production environments and testing environments

What's needed - Basic Qualifications:

• Actively pursuing a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

• Experience with Core Java and Java web application development for RESTful web services

• Ability to understand and author APIs

• Experience in HMI/GUI design using HTML and JavaScript is a plus

• Knowledge of database design

• Knowledge of logistics, warehouse management, or Tableau is a plus

• Experience with source control, code reviews, and code coverage analysis

• Willing to learn new and emerging technologies

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills in software

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, detail-oriented, and the ability to conduct meetings and presentations with associates from all levels of management

• The job will require 0 - 10% travel

Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law

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