Engineering Intern- Backend
At Shipt, we are transforming the shopping experience and giving time back to consumers. Shipt Shoppers handpick everything from fresh groceries to household essentials, then deliver them to your door in as little as one hour.
Shipt is an online marketplace providing same-day delivery from national retailers and local stores. Our friendly shoppers handpick fresh groceries and household essentials and deliver them to members in as soon as one hour.
Are you passionate about technology, sharing knowledge, growing your skills, and working with great people? If you are self directed, enjoy autonomy in your work, and you are an excellent participant in a team, come join Shipt as an Intern.
Internships are available starting Summer 2022 and require the ability to maintain a consistent work schedule!
Your Responsibilities
- Expand your technical knowledge under the mentorship of other Engineers
- Work as part of a team alongside other Engineers to deliver amazing product experiences
- Find creative, scalable solutions for problems
- Design, develop, review, test, deploy, and maintain backend systems
- Troubleshoot issues and fix bugs
- Collect and analyze metrics to drive quality and efficiency
- Create and maintain documentation for functionality, workflow and internal process
- Review and collaborate with other engineers on their code
- Have the opportunity to learn from an established, high-performance Engineering team
Requirements
- You are pursuing a degree in Computer Science (or related)
- You can communicate complex ideas and processes, simply and concisely
- You love collaboration, attention to detail, and solving problems
- You have a strong desire to continuously learn and master new skills
- You are interested in backend distributed systems
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Python, Go, or Ruby
- Experience with SQL and no SQL databases, especially Postgres
- Experience with Kafka or other messaging systems
- Experience with open source back-end technologies
- Experience with a non-relational data storage
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.