Junior Full Stack Engineer/Developer Intern
Are you ready to stop talking about radical change and ready to become a catalyst for change? Are you a recent graduate or current college student looking for an opportunity to gain research experience? Are you motivated by making a positive and sustainable impact? If this resonates and excites you, we would love to have you join the Akinship team.
Akinship is a career education and professional networking community for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color groups to share experiences and transfer knowledge. We provide access to the tools and resources required to thrive professionally. Additionally, our company provides members with a safe space to provide anonymous feedback on current and former employers. Members can engage candidly with each other, creating an integrated community of professionals who serve as reliable resources for one another.
You will be successful at Akinship if you:
- Amplify the voiceless - You will champion diverse perspectives, backgrounds and encourage others to challenge the status quo.
- Act like an owner - You are skilled at moving projects forward and able to unblock projects regardless of your role on the project.
- Do less, deliver more - You will focus your efforts on high impact initiatives that really move the needle vs creating task activities
- Impress yourself - We hold ourselves to quality above and beyond something that “just gets it done”. Each line of code is an opportunity to blend craftsmanship with innovation.
- Collaborate without ego - You are willing to take on any role necessary to further the mission at hand.
- Do your best work - You understand that every day is another day for you to get better. You should be proud of the work that you do and the effort that it took to deliver quality work
- Inspire - You enjoy continuous learning and applying emerging technologies while pushing yourself and your team to new heights.
As the Junior Full Stack Developer Intern you will...
- Help develop an application framework and architecture which will include security and data privacy as one of the key aspects
- Engage with different stakeholders to understand, develop, and achieve the business requirements and deliver user-centered solution(s)
- Assist to build, test, deploy and support the platform and platform applications
- Develop rich GUI for data visualization/analytics to answer complex analytical and real-time operational questions
- Responsible for providing REST API for data access Innovate by exploring, recommending, benchmarking, and implementing data
Preferred Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, ML, CIS, MIS or related demonstrated experience
- 2 years or more of software development experience
- Experience in Wordpress, source code management (e.g. TFS, GitHub)
- Understanding of end-to-end solutions architecture and experience with full stack product ownership, from front end, to data, to back end
- Skills with relevant languages like Java, Node.js, Python, and GO
- 10-15 hours of commitment/week
- Clear passion for diversity, equity and inclusion issues
How to Apply:
If you are looking for an exciting and challenging role that will see you make a positive contribution, we would love to hear from you! Please send your resume to info@akinship.com. This internship is for academic credit only. Please note this position requires use of your personal laptop.