Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences - and that’s just the beginning!
Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences.
About the Role
The Software Engineering Intern role is a great learning opportunity to build greenfield software used by internal engineers at Business Wire. Under the direction of your mentors, you will be responsible for building a standalone React application that will help enable our engineering team to better support our crown jewel applications. You will learn about the software development lifecycle process, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and productionization. This project will expose you to core technologies as well as a variety of third party applications, APIs, and cloud solutions.
What You'll Do
- Work with mentors and team members to build a standalone React application to support health monitoring of our crown jewel application
- Learn to work within the Agile Scrum methodology
- Learn to conduct meaningful code reviews
- Work with cross-functional teams that include Site Reliability engineers and Quality Engineers
- Test and validate completed work under the guidance of your mentor
What You'll Need
- Currently pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology fields
- Working knowledge of JavaScript and/or Typescript
- Experience or prior project work in any front-end framework such as React, Angular, or Vue
- Experience or project work in building APIs a plus
- Understanding of database concepts and SQL a plus
- Some knowledge of Cloud solutions such as AWS, Azure or GCP a plus
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Maintain a self-starter mindset
- Past work experience a plus
Business Wire will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The rate for this position is $25/hour
A pre-employment background check will be required after the acceptance of an offer. Business Wire is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Business Wire will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
What We Do
Business Wire, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, is the global market leader in commercial news distribution.
Thousands of member companies and organizations depend on Business Wire to transmit their full-text news releases, regulatory filings, photos and other multimedia content to journalists, financial professionals, investor services, regulatory authorities and the general public worldwide.
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