Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2020
Who we are
At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
The Job
Justworks is seeking an Engineering Intern to join our world-class team for Summer 2020. 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
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
Visa sponsorship for this role is currently not available.
Diversity at Justworks
Justworks’ vision is for all identities, backgrounds and expressions to be represented in the workplace. We're building the foundation for long-term success and intend to cultivate a safe, collaborative and inclusive space and company culture.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status.