Software Engineering Intern

About Coverdash

Coverdash is the fastest growing startup and SMB focused-insurtech agency, powered by the industry’s most advanced embedded technology and partnership strategies. Our mission is to help growing businesses purchase and manage business insurance from the places they trust most. Our simple and powerful embedded technology helps partners offer insurance to existing customers with a single line of code.

Coverdash was founded by a team with deep fintech and financial services experience and is the first insurance-as-a-service platform. We have raised over $16 million to date from top investors including NYCA (Affirm, Fundbox, Acorns, Gemini), Bling Capital (Lyft, Square, Instacart, Palantir), World Insurance Labs (HubSpot, DocuSign, Twitter), Expansion VC (Postmates, AngelList, Lemonade).

Our rapidly growing team is a smart, dynamic, and fun-loving group privileged to be collaborating with some of the world’s most innovative embedded partners.

Job Description

As a Software Engineering intern, you’ll help drive our overall technical architecture and engineering practices. You will also work on the team’s hardest problems by building high-quality, architecturally sound systems. The ideal candidate can translate business needs into workable technology solutions.

You will be working on building the software that powers our Quoting Engine, User Dashboard servicing API’s, Internal Agency Management tools, current and future integrations with various 3rd party API’s, and our complex internal relational database.

We are looking for someone who can thrive in a fast-paced startup environment. You should feel comfortable quickly drafting up proof of concept software in a reliable manner.

This is a paid internship based in our Midtown NYC office. Start date will be the beginning of summer at an agreed upon date.

Ideal Candidate

• One or more object-oriented languages (e.g., Java, C++, Python) (Preferably Java)

• Building micro services and familiar with Spring architecture

• Distributed service-oriented architecture

• Comfort integrating with complex 3rd party API’s

• Comfort working with complex Data Models/relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL)

• Highly available and highly scalable systems

• Taking a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project

Basic Qualifications

• Actively pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, with an expected graduation date of Summer 2025

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations