Platform Engineering Intern - Summer 2022
About Us:
At DailyPay, we are helping to reinvent the employee experience, starting with its most basic component — pay.
We do this by disrupting archaic and transactional payroll processes and creating innovative ways for employees to access and save their earned income, before payday. Through engaging and enriching relationships with our employer partners, we have become the leader in providing employees on-demand access to their earned income (across all industries) allowing employees exert greater control over their pay as our goal from day 1 has been to help people improve their financial health and financial security.
Our mission is made possible by DailyPay's most important asset: our people.
We come together through collaboration and ambition in a team-driven culture. Through the success of our product, we have seen monumental growth in our workforce, and we constantly look for exceptional talent to join us. At DailyPay, you are challenged with dynamic tasks that drive your professional development and career growth. Join us on our journey to deliver an innovative pay experience and to empower America's workforce with the ability to truly harness the power of their pay and take control of their financial lives.
The Internship Details:
- This position is located in New York City or Minneapolis Minnesota
- (potential for hybrid/remote TBD based on Covid19 protocols)
- Hours are 8am-5pm (CST) / 9am-6pm (EST), Monday - Friday, 40 hours a week (1hr unpaid lunch daily)
- This is a paid internship ($30 per hour)
The Intern Perks:
- Intern Exclusive Orientation where you'll get to know your intern cohort
- Professional Development-Intern Academy
- DailyPal (Buddy) Mentor / resource for day to day questions
- Networking Opportunities with Senior Leaders
- Department Project/s
- Presentation to reflect on your time at DP
- Free drinks and snacks available in office
- Fun social events
The Team / The Intern Experience:
As part of the Platform Engineering team, you'll contribute to the software design, development, and overall lifecycle of our payment and data exchange platform capabilities, upon which other DailyPay offerings are built or customers directly connect to. You'll work under the guidance of a more senior engineer, but alongside team members to deliver a high quality product, experimenting, learning, collaborating and adjusting as you go.
- Building robust, secure, performant and intuitive product features and capabilities
- Refining code, so it is optimized for scalability, maintainability, and availability
- Collaborating with the team and internal partners on refinement of stories and tasks
- Participating in learning activities around modern software design and development core practices
What You Bring to The Team:
- In Fall 2022 you will be in your Junior or Senior year of your Bachelor's program
- Some background in an object-oriented programming language
- we are a Ruby shop. If you haven't used Ruby, be ready to learn on the job!
- A critical eye, a curious nature and a voracious appetite to learn
- An interest in design, crafting high quality user experiences and readable code
- Interest in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team
No sponsorship is available for this position.
DailyPay does not accept and will not review unsolicited resumes from search firms.
DailyPay requires all colleagues in in-office positions be vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus unless there is a documented and approved medical or religious accommodation. As a condition of employment, prior to your start date, you will be required to complete an attestation of vaccination.
DailyPay is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable culture of belonging, grounded in empathy and respect, which values openness to opinions, awareness of lived experiences, fair treatment and access for all. We strive to build and develop diverse teams to create an organization where innovation thrives, where the full potential of each person is engaged, and their views, beliefs and values are integrated into our ways of working.
We welcome people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission*. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to peopleops@dailypay.com. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.
- DailyPay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.