This role is with Shipt. Shipt uses RippleMatch to find top talent.
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.
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 are an excellent participant in a team, come join Shipt as an Engineering Intern!
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
About Shipt
Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Through a community of Shipt Shoppers and a convenient app, Shipt provides personal shopping and delivery to members from a curated marketplace of retailers and offers members access to a variety of stores and product categories including fresh foods, household essentials, wellness products, and pet supplies. Available to 80% of households in more than 5,000 U.S. cities, we’re here to create something big, and we want all the inspired, brilliant help we can get.
This is a paid internship opportunity for Summer 2024. Our program will run for 10 weeks, beginning on Monday, June 3, 2024, and ending on Friday, August 9, 2024. Full program participation is required of all interns. Interns are expected to maintain a consistent full-time work schedule throughout their internship.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection if you need any accommodations.
