Software Engineer Intern
We work hard. We’re helping businesses get off the ground, by simplifying payroll, benefits, payments and compliance needs, enabling them to focus on what matters. Thousands of people already use our product and we’re just getting started. We’re data driven and never stop inventing new ways to improve.
Working at Justworks, you’ll enjoy company happy hours, a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, and the ability to interact with and learn from prominent leaders in the startup community.
We are looking to build out our engineering team of passionate, talented individuals to help us continue to solve big challenges and create a great experience for our users. If you want to work in a fast paced environment, build something meaningful and have fun while doing it, we would love to hear from you!
The Job - Software Engineer Intern
Justworks is seeking an Engineering Intern to join our world-class team. As an Intern you have a strong desire to learn and to contribute. You will have the opportunity to work with prominent leaders to gain imperative knowledge and grow your skillsets while contributing to the overall success of the company. You will be writing, testing, and deploying straight into production on the Justworks user interface site. We work primarily in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, but prior experience is not necessary, and you should have an understanding that goes beyond the ability to use these tools.
What you'll do
- Design and develop functionality that are exposed via web and API
- Add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure
- Implement internal services
- Enhance our testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure
- Conduct “game day” exercises to identify and understand single points of failure
- Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
Qualifications
Who you are:
- You have completed school projects in relevant technologies
- Strong passion for open source technology and software
- Strong understanding of web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
- Strong object-oriented design and coding skills
- Working knowledge of C, C++ and/or Java
- Distributed systems and network programming experience
- Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms