Software Engineering Intern

Guild is a company dedicated to helping working adults access affordable education and coaching. They are hiring a Software Engineering Intern to work on real problems affecting real people, shipping code that reaches members and partners while developing engineering judgment within a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver meaningful end-to-end features and improvements, from understanding the problem through design, implementation, testing, and deployment
• Develop practical fluency with Guild's core stack (Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React, AWS, PostgreSQL, GraphQL) by contributing to production code
• Build effective working relationships within your team, contributing to a collaborative environment and resolving ambiguity constructively
• Demonstrate judgment in your use of AI coding tools, critically evaluating output, and applying your technical reasoning and problem understanding
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, including reviewing and verifying AI-assisted output and handling edge cases and errors gracefully
• Participate in agile ceremonies such as standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, aligning on goals and contributing your perspective to the team
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to build products that are intuitive and solve problems for our users and our business
• Monitor operational data for your team's domain and use that information to suggest and implement improvements
• Create and maintain accurate documentation for your work, ensuring knowledge is shared effectively within the team
• Seek feedback proactively and demonstrate a growth mindset by addressing areas for improvement throughout the internship

Requirements:

• Ability to live and work full-time in one of the specified states
• Demonstrate strong fundamentals and a track record of building things
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Participate in agile ceremonies such as standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers
• Monitor operational data for your team's domain
• Create and maintain accurate documentation for your work
• Seek feedback proactively and demonstrate a growth mindset
• Familiarity with at least one programming language (Python or JavaScript preferred)
• Experience with web development frameworks or libraries
• A systematic approach to diagnosing issues, writing tests, and tracing through logic
• Ability to reason about how components fit together (APIs, databases, services, deployment pipelines)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Take initiative when stuck, ask good questions, and treat ambiguity as something to resolve
• Interest in how software decisions connect to user outcomes and business goals
• Practiced using AI coding tools (such as GitHub Copilot or Claude)
• Debugged a tricky issue in someone else's code or an unfamiliar codebase
• Worked on a team project where you had to communicate trade-offs or technical decisions