Application Developer Intern at ARAG Legal Insurance in Des Moines, IA

Summary: ARAG Legal Insurance is seeking an Application Developer Intern for the summer of 2026. The intern will contribute to building, enhancing, and supporting custom-developed software within an Agile team, focusing on applications that meet business needs. Responsibilities: - Analyzes, develops, tests, implements, documents, and maintains applications that meet ARAGs business needs, with guidance - Unit tests code to an acceptable defect level prior to handoff to Quality Assurance Testing and User Acceptance Testing - Creates automated unit tests as part of development - Submits code for reviews and integrates suggestions into solution while meeting security standards necessary to pass the code review - Provides status updates to Manager, Application Development & Quality on a proactive and timely basis - Participants in development and scrum team meetings - Proactively monitors systems availability performance and capacity and suggest adjustments, as appropriate - Maintains documentation and design papers - Meets agreed upon timeframes - Balances prioritizes and manages time with direction - Actively participates in educational opportunities, both technical and business opportunities - Provides production support for applications and researches the root cause(s) - Develops business knowledge of the applications assigned to effectively provide support maintenance - Provides tactical troubleshooting and resolution of system incidents and problems while collaborating with IT Ops, Product Owners, and other developers - Serves as a positive role model by representing ARAG at its Best - Other duties as assigned Required Qualifications: - Understanding of Object-Oriented programming concepts - Knowledge of software development life cycle and methodologies - Proven experience working successfully on a team - Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, organization, time management and communication skills - Strong customer service skills - Currently pursuing, or already has completed, a Bachelor's degree in an IT related field or equivalent combination of education, experience and formal training in IT or a related field. Must be in good academic standing with applicable college institution Preferred Qualifications: - Spring Security & Framework - Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Concepts - Unit testing strategies - Microservice Architecture - Java - Angular (2.0 or greater) or another JavaScript framework - Azure DevOps Experience - Responsive Design - Nexus, Maven, NPM Experience - Previous application development or related IT experience preferred - Course work or experience using Java, Java Script, and Angular preferred Required Skills: Java, Angular, Object-Oriented Programming Important Skills: Spring Security, Microservice Architecture, Azure DevOps Nice-to-Have Skills: Customer Service