Backend Engineering Intern, Internal Tools

About the Job: 

As a Backend Engineering Intern, you will be joining the Internal Tools Applications Development Team during the summer of 2023. You'll participate in new feature development end-to-end, building applications used throughout the organization. We're looking for someone who thrives on solving difficult backend problems, and putting new features in front of users. 

• Work in a production environment alongside other Software Engineers writing code that will go live within LaunchDarkly

• Craft solutions to high impact problems at the nexus of engineering, finance, and sales

• Write well-tested and well-organized production-quality code, with an emphasis on maintainability

• Create user-facing features in our API-driven interface

• Identify areas of improvement and advocate for best practices

• Actively participate in code reviews

Basic Qualifications:

• Majoring in Computer Science/Engineering, or other technical field

• Fluency with a server-side web development language (e.g. in Golang, Java / Scala, C++)

• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, a positive attitude, and empathy

• Self‐starter and problem solver, willing to solve difficult problems and work independently when necessary

• You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices

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