Frontdoor Austin, TX 78703
2022-03-23

INTERN - Software Engineer

Overview

Frontdoor is a company that’s obsessed with taking the hassle out of owning a home. With services powered by people and enabled by technology, it is the parent company of four home service plan brands (American Home Shield, HSA, Landmark and OneGuard) and an expanding portfolio of home services. Frontdoor serves more than two million customers across the U.S. through a network of 16,000 pre-qualified contractor firms that employ over 45,000 technicians. The company’s customizable home service plans help customers protect and maintain their homes from costly and unplanned breakdowns of essential home systems and appliances. With more than 45 years of experience, the company responds to over four million service requests annually (or one request every eight seconds). For more details, visit frontdoorhome.com.

We’re excited to announce our 2022 Summer Internship Program here at Frontdoor where students will have real-world responsibilities, in addition to participating in professional development, networking and social events.

Bring your passion and join us!

We currently offer programs across various business areas:
PR/Corporate Communications

Digital Engineering

Software Engineering

Product Management

Process Improvement

Workforce Management

https://frontdoor.jobs/

What to Expect:
A 10-week paid internship where you will work with a high-energy team that’s responsible for developing products that will disrupt our industry. The internship will allow you to gain real-world experience you won’t find in the classroom by leading and contributing to projects from start to finish.

What does your team do?

Frontdoor’s software development team is responsible for creating cutting edge applications that will revolutionize the home services industry. We pride ourselves on providing our customers with top level customer service. Frontdoor is an exceptional company because we hire exceptional individuals, and we’re looking for a rock-star intern to join our Software Engineering team this summer.

Frontdoor's software development philosophy is that software engineers are product focused. They work on a product and understand all layers of the software stack. The core skills that are applicable on a daily-basis are essentially the fundamentals of computer science and logical reasoning. If this sounds like you, and you’re eager to learn, are flexible and don’t like to sit on the sidelines, let’s talk.

Responsibilities

What will you be doing?

Write documentation for the code to be written

Write automated tests for code to be written

Implement functionality such that automated tests successfully pass and according to coding standards

Work with product managers and UX designers to deliver most optimal and customer-friendly implementation.

Be on-call on a rotating basis for the services owned by the team

Debug production issues and create subsequent mitigation plans

Optimize performance of existing implementations

Own the product or component entirely

Bring forward ideas to experiment and work in teams to transform ideas to reality

Prioritize tasks with the scrum master that leads the team to be successful

Where will you work?

Remote environment

Qualifications

Requirements:
Basic understanding of cloud computing

Available for a 10-week internship in Summer 2022

Available to work 40 hours per week

Preferred Requirements:
An undergraduate student (junior or senior) or graduate student who is currently pursuing or has recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math or related field

Previous internship experience

An understanding of AWS or GCP

An understanding of CI/CD practices

Knowledge and Skills:
Self-motivated, detail-oriented, ability to prioritize, multi-task and meet deadlines.

Understand data structures, as well as time and space complexity

Experience with Javascript and frameworks such as Node.js, React.js or Angular.js

Experience with languages such as C, C++, Java, Golang, .net Core,

Understanding RESTful APIs

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ID 2022-2686

Category Engineering

Type Full Time

Company AHS American Home Shield Corp