Position: IT & Systems Developer

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Reporting to: Business Analyst

Location: On-site, Calgary, AB

Brands Supported: MCG Career College and InFocus Film School

Compensation: $45,000-$55,000 annually, depending on education and experience

About MCG Career College:

MCG Career College is a private career college with campuses across Alberta, offering practical, career-focused education that emphasizes applied learning, industry relevance, and student support. MCG also develops and maintains its own internal software and digital systems. This role supports the systems and infrastructure used across MCG Career College and InFocus Film School.

Position Overview:

The IT & Systems Developer supports the technology environments of MCG Career College and InFocus Film School through a combination of software development and systems administration/technical support. The role is approximately 60% development and 40% administration/support, and both areas are core responsibilities of the position.

The development focus includes internal web and mobile applications, system integrations, automations, AI-assisted tools, and data-pipeline reliability. The administration and support focus includes Microsoft 365, user onboarding and offboarding, SaaS and telephony administration, and second-line technical support across campuses.

Key Responsibilities:

- Software Development & Automation: Build and maintain internal web and mobile applications; develop integrations across CRM, student information, marketing, and other business systems; create automations and AI-assisted tools; monitor data-pipeline reliability.
- Systems Administration: Administer Microsoft 365, including user provisioning, licensing, security groups, and Exchange; support employee onboarding/offboarding; administer telephony and SaaS licensing.
- Technical Support: Provide second-line support across campuses, including classroom and lab technology; troubleshoot cloud, application, access, and integration issues.
- Cross-Brand Support: Support systems, infrastructure, and technology initiatives across MCG Career College and InFocus Film School.

Qualifications & Requirements

- Demonstrated ability through completed, working projects is valued over a prescribed number of years of experience. Preference will be given to deployed, self-directed builds that demonstrate practical problem-solving.
- Demonstrated fluency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent,



with the ability to understand and debug generated code.
- Working proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js and Python, with React experience.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, queries, and migrations.
- Experience integrating third-party APIs, including OAuth, webhooks, rate limits, and error handling.
- Comfortable deploying and troubleshooting applications in a cloud environment; strong working knowledge of Git.
- Microsoft 365 administration experience, or demonstrated ability to assume administration responsibilities quickly.
- Clear written communication skills for technical documentation and updates.
- Legally entitled to work in Canada and available to work on-site in Calgary five days per week.

Preferred Qualifications / Assets

- CRM administration experience, particularly Salesforce or HubSpot.
- Experience with a student information system or Learning Management System (LMS).
- React Native / Expo experience, ideally with an application shipped to an app store.
- Experience building LLM-enabled applications, including prompt design, structured outputs, retrieval, and function calling.
- Microsoft or Salesforce certification.
- Experience using rapid-prototyping platforms such as Replit, Lovable, v0, or Bolt to launch working solutions.
- Familiarity with Canadian privacy and electronic-communications obligations affecting student data, including PIPEDA, Alberta PIPA, and CASL.

Why This Role Join a small, agile team where ideas can move quickly from concept to production. You’ll build and support systems that staff and students may begin using within the same week. The role offers unusual breadth across cloud infrastructure, CRM architecture, mobile development, AI-enabled tools, and enterprise identity administration, giving you hands-on exposure to multiple areas of technology within a single position.

Working Conditions

- Full time, permanent, on-site position in Calgary, Alberta.
- Work spans software development, systems administration, technical support, and cross-functional technology projects.

How to Apply

Please submit

- Your resume.
- Links to two or three projects you have built, with a short note describing what each does, the technologies used,



your role, and what you would do differently. Project examples will be a key part of our assessment.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Condition of Employment

All applicants to MCG Career College must complete a police information check (inclusive of Canada-wide criminal record history, vulnerable sector search and police history) prior to confirmation of employment. Given the time that it may take to secure this check, the offer of employment will be provisional until clearance is provided.

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that our campuses and work across Alberta are located on the traditional territories of many Indigenous Peoples, including the lands covered by Treaties 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10, and within the Métis Nation homeland, including the Métis Settlements. We also acknowledge that our sister college is located in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam) Nation, Sḵwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation.

We recognize the enduring presence, rights, and contributions of Indigenous Peoples, and we commit to learning and building respectful relationships through our work and our actions.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Our Colleges are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences, including Indigenous Peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Pay: $45,000.00-$55,000.00 per year

Application question(s)

- Are you legally entitled to work in Canada?
- Are you available to work on-site in Calgary, Alberta, five days per week?
- Do you have experience integrating third-party APIs?
- Have you built and deployed at least one working software application or system?
- Do you have experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot?
- Please provide links to two or three software projects you have built or deployed. If a project cannot be shared publicly, briefly describe the project and your role.

Experience:
- TypeScript/Node.js hands-on: 1 year (preferred)
- React: 1 year (preferred)
- Python: 1 year (preferred)
- PostgreSQL or a comparable relational database: 1 year (preferred)
- Microsoft 365 administration or technical support: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

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