What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Platform Intern position at Addepar?
The Program
Being a part of the AddeU Internship Program, you will be working on meaningful project(s) that you can feel proud of and present back to the company at the end of the experience. In addition to having a supporting manager and mentor, we have a fantastic onboarding program to get you acclimated and ready for your time with us. Fun events and super cool swag are also included!
At the moment, our 12-week internship experience will be in the Edinburgh office. Dates are currently set for June - September 2025 but please advise your recruiter. Seeking Scotland students only.
The Role
We are currently seeking a Software Engineer Intern to join Addepar.
Engineering is at the core of Addepar, and we are looking to add the best, brightest, and most hardworking software engineers to our team. If you are passionate about doing the best work of your career and you enjoy the rush of shipping high quality code to production every day we’re excited to meet you! Our software engineers come from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to finance tech veterans. What they have in common is tremendous talent and dedication to architecting, implementing, and shipping high quality software.
What You’ll Do
- Own features, work alongside and learn from senior engineers, and ship code.
- Learn and demonstrate engineering standard processes and principles.
- Document software functionality, system design, and project plans; this includes clean, readable code with comments.
- Produce a retrospective and demonstrate your summer project to an internal audience.
Who You Are
- Must be currently enrolled in a post-secondary educational institution (university must be located in Scotland) & must be returning to school after internship
- Available to intern for the full 12 weeks
- Extraordinary talent in software engineering. Ability to write high quality object oriented code
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid understanding of development standard processes and experience working in a team
- Ability to explore complex problems spaces objectively from multiple points of view
- Ability to learn in a fast paced environment
- General familiarity with some of the technologies we use: HTTP, REST and web API standard processes. Java, Python, React, MySQL, Kafka
- Linux proficiency, basic shell scripting and a solid grasp of systems level programming is a plus
- Specific experience in or knowledge of financial data systems is a plus
