Summer Software Engineering Internship

• You will be working as part of our product or platform team as a regular team member taking full ownership of your project end to end 

• You will be invited to take part in our hackathon, dev stormings, regular stand ups and team building activities

• Examples of projects from last year:

• Cloud graph rendering — Create a server application that renders graphs (via web app) and stores them as pictures (on Amazon S3)

  • Browser extensions — Port our “Slido for Chrome” browser extension to Safari

  • Clean code — Refactor and improve our server code consistency, add and apply ESLint rules

  • Product love™ — Add animations and other design tweaks, like confetti when you win a quiz or hearts when you like a question to the participant app and elsewhere in our product.

  • Mashup application utilising Slido public API  — Many applications now-days provide API access to their services, allowing developers to create mashups with endless possibilities. Help us explore, how can Slido be used in such integrations, from zapier flows, integration into video processors, hardware tools or anything else.

  • Foresee — Help develop a prediction market tool that would enable us (or perhaps any other company) to predict the future of their features by letting it’s employees to bet on it.

• Students in final or penultimate years of Bachelors/ Masters in Computer Science or Engineering or related field.

• You enjoy solving new technical challenges and possess a sound understanding of areas in the basic areas of Computer Science such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Databases.

• You have a passion for coding and strive to write quality code – preferably in one of these languages Javascript/Typescript/Python.

• The candidate must have good written and oral communication skills, be a fast learner and have the ability to adapt quickly to a fast-paced development environment.

Bonus Points: 

• Experience or interest in distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, machine learning and applications of linear algebra

• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions

• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly

• Previous technical internship(s) preferred

• We are a team of 250+ people who are passionate about what they do and care about each other

• You have the opportunity to have an impact on a world-class product used by thousands of people around the world

• We share knowledge within our team of talented programmers, you will grow much faster

• We use techniques of agile software development

• We are fans of the Lean Startup methodology, we love Trello, Jira, Slack

• We have a strong culture of Freedom & Responsibility