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Software Engineering Internship

Bethesda, MD Full Time

About the Company 

We are Software business concentrating on letting employees enroll in benefits online. Our service provides web applications for employees to enroll in benefits and administrative portals for HR, insurance brokers, and insurance companies to configure benefits.  We build APIs to handle B2B transactions with our insurance carrier and payroll partners -- hundreds of thousands of transmissions per day between us the largest carriers and payroll companies.  

You'll be exposed to advanced database querying on a large database (hundreds of millions of records), web applications used by millions of employees nationwide, and a large code base providing challenge and variety.  

We’re proud to be named one of the Washington Post’s Top Workplaces in for the last 7 years … including the pandemic!  

About the Role 

Our day-to-day work is in C# on .NET Core with MVC and Vue.js at the front-end.  We develop software as simple as forms for data capture to Roslyn-based C# class -> ReST API generators to custom patterns handling our enrollment engine.  We believe the best part of development is planning out code and discussing it with peers before writing it.  Micro-ORM, dynamic SQL, or stored procedures are all used depending on the best option.  We like generics and functional techniques and really like code that is easy to read.  

Our engineers have a lot to teach.  So, we are looking to bring on some software engineering interns who want a challenge and are excited to learn.  

In this role, you'll work under the direction of a Team Lead and handle defined tasks that are assigned and tracked using Kanban.  This lets developers work at a pace defined by the tasks and not an arbitrary time frame.  Those tasks will range from bug fixes -- which we believe are an invaluable learning experience -- to significant components within a larger feature set.  

 
Skills You’ll Learn 

  • C# generics … for abstract composition  
  • C# functional approaches … immutability + predictability  
  • MVC and Razor … simple building block when simple is better  
  • Vue.js + JSON … more complex blocks but with fewer opinions than other frameworks  
  • Advanced SQL (CTEs, temp tables, analyze query plans) … data is fundamental  
  • Giving presentations … we have Tech Lunch each Friday, and everyone presents periodically  
  • Planning code … code review is a last defense, plan it first – collaborate with your team on the best approach  
  • Enterprise coding … our codebase is large but also evolves to keep up with latest tech  

 

Minimum Qualifications 

  • Must be currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree (or higher) from an accredited college or university in Engineering or Computer Science 
  • Must continue enrollment in degree program upon completion of the internship 
  • Validated academic excellence (3.0 GPA and higher) 
  • Proven understanding of comp-sci fundamentals  
  • Familiarity with C#  
  • Familiarity with JavaScript  

Bonus Point 

  • Bring-your-own-code is a plus for any interviews we get to