Software Engineering Intern at Guild in Remote

Summary: Guild is a company focused on helping working adults access affordable education and coaching, and they are currently hiring a Software Engineering Intern. The intern will work on real problems, collaborate with a team, and develop engineering skills while contributing to production code in a supportive environment. Responsibilities: - Deliver meaningful end-to-end features and improvements, from understanding the problem through design, implementation, testing, and deployment - Develop practical fluency with Guild's core stack (Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React, AWS, PostgreSQL, GraphQL) by contributing to production code - Build effective working relationships within your team, contributing to a collaborative environment and resolving ambiguity constructively - Demonstrate judgment in your use of AI coding tools, critically evaluating output, and applying your technical reasoning and problem understanding - Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, including reviewing and verifying AI-assisted output and handling edge cases and errors gracefully - Participate in agile ceremonies such as standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, aligning on goals and contributing your perspective to the team - Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to build products that are intuitive and solve problems for our users and our business - Monitor operational data for your team's domain and use that information to suggest and implement improvements - Create and maintain accurate documentation for your work, ensuring knowledge is shared effectively within the team - Seek feedback proactively and demonstrate a growth mindset by addressing areas for improvement throughout the internship Required Qualifications: - Deliver meaningful end-to-end features and improvements, from understanding the problem through design, implementation, testing, and deployment - Develop practical fluency with Guild's core stack (Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React, AWS, PostgreSQL, GraphQL) by contributing to production code - Build effective working relationships within your team, contributing to a collaborative environment and resolving ambiguity constructively - Demonstrate judgment in your use of AI coding tools, critically evaluating output, and applying your technical reasoning and problem understanding - Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, including reviewing and verifying AI-assisted output and handling edge cases and errors gracefully - Participate in agile ceremonies such as standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, aligning on goals and contributing your perspective to the team - Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to build products that are intuitive and solve problems for our users and our business - Monitor operational data for your team's domain and use that information to suggest and implement improvements - Create and maintain accurate documentation for your work, ensuring knowledge is shared effectively within the team - Seek feedback proactively and demonstrate a growth mindset by addressing areas for improvement throughout the internship - Technical foundation: familiarity with at least one programming language (Python or JavaScript preferred) and experience with web development frameworks or libraries - Debugging ability: a systematic approach to diagnosing issues, writing tests, and tracing through logic to verify correctness, including in AI-generated code - Systems thinking: the ability to reason about how components fit together (APIs, databases, services, deployment pipelines) and how changes in one area affect others - Communication: strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to write clear documentation and adapt your message for both technical and non-technical audiences - Ownership and resourcefulness: you take initiative when stuck, ask good questions, and treat ambiguity as something to resolve rather than wait out - Business curiosity: an interest in how software decisions connect to user outcomes and business goals, with the instinct to ask 'why' before 'how' Preferred Qualifications: - Built something because you saw a problem worth solving, not just because it was assigned, whether in a class project, personal project, or internship - Practiced using AI coding tools (such as GitHub Copilot or Claude) in your development workflows to understand how to collaborate with AI - Debugged a tricky issue in someone else's code or an unfamiliar codebase and can walk through how you approached it and what you learned - Worked on a team project where you had to communicate trade-offs or technical decisions to people with different levels of technical background Required Skills: Python, JavaScript, Web development frameworks Important Skills: Debugging, AI coding tools, Systems thinking Nice-to-Have Skills: Business curiosity Benefits: Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO), Access to a 401k to help save for the future, Vacation policy to rest and recharge, 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover, Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits., Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services, Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth