At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. We typically keep job postings active for 3–5 weeks, though this may vary depending on applicant volume and other factors.
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At Guild, we uphold our Core Values in everything we do. Our team emphasizes our Core Values in the following ways:
- Nurture A Learner’s Mindset - using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and development areas
- Build Shared Success - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Be an Owner - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
- Create Belonging - recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to our company
Guild is looking for a Software Engineering Intern to join our team for the summer of 2025 from June 2 to August 22. This Denver based role requires in office attendance one day per week, and is only open to people living in the Denver Metro area.
Bring your passion for technology and eagerness to learn to this dynamic 12-week internship, where you’ll dive into the exciting challenges of our business and software, gaining hands-on experience and accelerating your growth in an innovative environment.
Guild’s Software Engineers work with a robust team to build software that helps students take advantage of Guild’s affordable education programs and coaching services. You will collaborate with the most hardworking and creative engineers, product managers, and designers to build products that are intuitive, easy to use, and provide a frictionless experience for our users. Moreover, you will use your passion for writing clean, well-tested, and reusable code to build high quality software that will scale efficiently with our continued business growth.
This internship is designed for university or bootcamp graduates (or equivalent experience), with the potential for conversion to a full-time Associate Engineer position based on performance.
This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring employees to work on-site at our Denver office two days per week. Candidates must reside within a reasonable commuting distance to meet this requirement.
As a Software Engineering Intern, responsibilities include:
- Contribute to the design and development of software solutions, adhering to professional coding standards and best practices.
- Design and build solutions using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to, Python, Node.js, Typescript, React, AWS, PostgreSQL, GraphQL
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, ensuring edge cases and errors are handled gracefully.
- Collaborate with team members during agile ceremonies, such as standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to align on goals and deliverables.
- Maintain awareness of monitoring and operational data for the team's domain, using this information to suggest and implement performance improvements.
- Build strong relationships within the team, resolving disagreements constructively and contributing to a positive, collaborative environment.
- Create and maintain accurate documentation related to assigned tasks, ensuring knowledge is shared effectively within the team.
- Demonstrate a growth mindset by seeking feedback and proactively addressing areas for improvement in technical and interpersonal skills.
The ideal candidate will have:
Required Proficiencies:
- Technical Skills: Familiarity with at least one programming language (e.g., Python, JavaScript), and experience with web development frameworks or libraries.
- Debugging: Basic debugging skills with a focus on diagnosing issues in a single function or service.
- Operational Awareness: Understanding of monitoring principles and operational metrics to inform decision-making and suggest improvements.
- Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with team members, share knowledge, and contribute to a healthy team dynamic.
- Communication: Experience in verbal and written communication, adapting style for technical and non-technical audiences.
We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency. All compensation ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. This role offers a competitive compensation of $37.00 - $41.00 per hour. Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience and competencies.
Please note, while we always celebrate diversity, equality, and our commitment to supporting employees, the full benefits listed out further below do not apply to this role or to intern positions.
At Guild, we unlock the talent and economic potential of America’s workforce for employees and their companies. We partner with the nation’s largest employers—including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, and The Walt Disney Company—to create cultures of opportunity that help them attract and retain top talent, while building the workforce of the future from within. By using our proprietary Career Opportunity Platform to develop education and learning programs that work in the real-world, thousands of employees at those companies have gained the skills, knowledge, and guidance they need to build a brighter future for themselves and their families—all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.
Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others.
Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
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What We Do
Guild’s mission is to unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education, skilling, and career mobility. Guild’s Career Opportunity Platform™ enables forward-thinking employers to invest in their employees, creating life-changing opportunities for personal and professional growth through education and learning programs, career development, and one-on-one coaching. Guild partners with the nation’s largest employers — including Walmart, Chipotle, Target, Disney, and healthcare systems like UCHealth and Providence Health — to create cultures of opportunity that will help them attract and retain top talent and grow their future workforce from within. Guild offers a marketplace of curated education and learning programs designed for the success of working adults. Layered onto that is support, guidance, and resources at every step to help ensure the new skills employees are building translate into career pathways that are in demand at their companies — all without paying for tuition or career services on their own. Through Guild’s partnerships, more than 5 million employees across America have had access to Guild through their employers over the last 12 months.
Why Work With Us
As a certified B-corp with a double-bottom line business model that does well by doing good, we're looking for people who want to help us expand economic opportunity through education. You’ll join a driven and collaborative team, be challenged every day, and go home knowing you’re helping to make a difference in the lives of working adults.
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