Software Engineering Intern

Summary

Join ITHAKA's Software Engineering Internship program and gain hands-on experience in a real-world product development environment. As an integral part of a web development team, you will design, develop, and maintain web applications deployed on JSTOR's platform. This 12-week internship, partially funded by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, offers opportunities to Michigan residents or those with ties to the state. You'll contribute to problem-solving, idea generation, and overall team impact, while learning new technologies and working with experienced mentors. ITHAKA provides comprehensive onboarding and support, enabling interns to quickly become productive members of the team. The internship begins June 2, 2025, and applications are due February 7, 2025.

Requirements

• Actively enrolled in a degree program
• Knowledge of accessibility, usability, information architecture, and interaction design principles
• Knowledge of responsive design interfaces
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React/Vue
• Familiarity with Webpack, Grunt or other similar build tools
• Willingness and ability to learn new approaches and emerging technology
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail
• Have a connection to Michigan (attending a college/university in the state, residing in Michigan, or having personal ties to the area)

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product Owner, User Experience Designer, and other team members to conduct Product Discovery using various testing methods including high and low fidelity prototypes, and live A/B testing
• Participate as a member of an agile team leveraging continuous deployment and test automation in order to deploy application changes to production on average more than once per day
• Implement rich, interactive web applications using the latest technologies, frameworks, and patterns
• Leverage web analytics as needed to support Product Discovery and to measure project KPIs
• Test, measure, and optimize performance using Application Performance Management and Web Developer Tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Applicable computer science coursework
• High degree of intellectual curiosity
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Passion for learning best practices
• Desire to optimize code for clarity and reliability as well as performance

Benefits

• Tool and product training
• Excellent onboarding program
• Mentorship from a team lead and other mentors
• Constant support to ensure comfort in the technology environment
• Support from leadership to set up for success
• Freedom to leverage the right tools and languages to solve problems
• Rapidly develop and deploy software through an automated continuous delivery pipeline supporting over 200 production deployments a week
• Opportunity to see the impact of your work as it’s put in front of millions of users
• $20.00/hourly pay