Software Engineer Intern

jAbout Company

Poshmark is a leading social marketplace for new and secondhand style for women, men, kids, pets, home, and more. By combining the human connection of physical shopping with the scale, ease, and selection benefits of e-commerce, Poshmark makes buying and selling simple, social, and sustainable. Its community of more than 80 million registered users across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and India, is driving the future of commerce while promoting more sustainable consumption. For more information, please visit www.poshmark.com, and for company news and announcements, please visit investors.poshmark.com. You can also find Poshmark on Glassdoor, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube.

Job Description: 

Poshmark is seeking a Software Development Engineer Intern. We are a rapidly growing multiplatform social fashion marketplace and working on developing new user experiences, solving difficult problems and creating delightful solutions to improve user experiences. The role will be dynamic and varied, requiring a versatile self-starter willing to dive into multiple initiatives. Over the duration the intern can expect to become deeply involved in learning the tech stack, implementing new technologies, standards and best practices for software development that may run in production. 

• Our goal is to give you exposure to a range of development techniques and current technologies, through the experience of applying them to the multi-platform social marketplace dynamics. 
• This role will provide an excellent opportunity to implement code that may run in production, at scale.  While having the opportunity to work with a talented team to rapidly roll out changes and measure their impact, while being mentored and guided.
• This is your chance to solve real world problems while working on cutting-edge technology.

What You’ll Be Potentially Doing:

• Develop product features that delight the Poshmark community.
• Work with the product and design team to understand and iterate on feature requirements.
• Build development stack, programming and software design skills.
• Write high quality and maintainable code and test cases.
• Learn best practices and design patterns for software development.

What to expect  and to learn:

• Exposure: Being a rapidly growing social fashion marketplace gives employees the opportunity to work in a startup environment and focus on deeply interesting work that you wouldn’t get to do anywhere else. Prepare to make a large scale impact in a short amount of time.
• Professional Development: Participate in weekly team meetings,  opportunity to find a good balance of working independently and in team formed across multiple business units, develop knowledge of multiple areas of social marketplace, interact with leadership team;
• Mentorship: Look forward to one-on-one time with dedicated managers and mentors to facilitate your growth throughout the summer internship experience.
• Have fun: Team events, catered lunches(in office)

Ideal Candidate

• Solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design
• Knowledge in creating web-based APIs and REST APIs
• Excited to work with NoSQL data solutions
• Experience with any or all of: Ruby, JRuby, Java, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Swift, Kotlin, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Linux
• Dedication around clean & high performance code
• User-oriented focus and obsession with quality
• Good to have exposure on client platforms such as iOS and Android
• AWS or other Cloud Computing platforms 

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