One of the best things about startups is that you get to choose who you work with. We have a very rigorous recruiting process because we're obsessed with finding top talent to join the team. Today, we'd like to welcome two new members of the BackType team as interns. They will be working with us for the next four months and contributing posts to the blog.

Christopher Bertels is studying computer science and philosophy at the University of Osnabrück (Germany). His main interests lie in the advancement of Free Software, programming language implementations and virtual machine technology. He is the creator of Fancy, a dynamic, pure object oriented programming language inspired by Smalltalk, Ruby and Erlang. He presented it at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention last year. After seeing us on Hacker News, Christopher sent us an e-mail at 4am his time; little did he know we would respond with a coding challenge ten minutes later. He passed the challenge and rest of our interview process with flying colors.

We met Jason Jackson while interviewing candidates at the University of Waterloo; of over 100 applicants, he was the strongest and most driven to join a startup. After his flight arrived on Monday morning, he came directly to the office with luggage in hand to start working. He studies software engineering at UW, and has previous work experience at Google as well as another start-up in the Bay Area. His main interests include entrepreneurship, innovation, aerospace technology, argentine tango and psychology.

Co-ops and interns do the same thing everyone else on the team does: build incredible products and technology that solve high priority problems for our customers. Click here if you'd like to learn more about becoming an intern at BackType. We're hiring for full-time positions as well.