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Software Engineering Intern

Ellevest

Software Engineering Intern

New York, NY
Internship
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Software Engineering Intern Software Engineering Intern NYC About This Position Ellevest is seeking a small group of passionate, motivated interns to work with our engineering team on needed infrastructure, financial forecasting, and marketing related initiatives during Summer 2018. The ideal candidate will be comfortable implementing features across our web-stack, communicating with the product team, helping develop requirements, and writing clear, effective code. This is a perfect opportunity for college computer-science, math, or related engineering majors to join a fast-paced startup with a solid engineering process. Responsibilities * Work with other Software Engineers across the stack on developing product-related features * Communicate with key project stakeholders about technical requirements, results, and ideas * Participate in code reviews and commit high-quality code * Participate in Engineering conversations around technical direction and implementation * Work with Product Managers, Compliance and Security to understand the impact and responsibility of feature work and their implications across the system and business * Develop an understanding of the existing infrastructure setup and data attributes Requirements * Current Computer Science, math, or related major undergraduate college student in good standing * Comfort and hands-on experience with web-based technologies (Ruby on Rails and/or React knowledge is a plus)

    • Interest in working in a fast-paced professional environment * Understanding of Git or other version control systems * Ability and desire to work in our New York City office for a 10-week paid internship
    • Basic understanding of financial modeling and/or planning is a plus * About Ellevest Ellevest is a transformative technology company created to help women achieve their financial potential. Ellevest helps women take control of their financial futures through investing, with a beautifully designed digital platform backed by an incredibly smart algorithm. Ellevest was co-founded by Wall Street veteran Sallie Krawcheck, chair of the Ellevate Network, previously CEO of Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, formerly CFO of Citi, and author of Own It: The Power of Women at Work. Ellevest has raised over $44MM from investors like Rethink Impact, Salesforce Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Morningstar, and Venus Williams. Ellevest has flipped the traditional approach to investing with a real-life, goal-based approach. Clients select personal financial goals such as buying a home, starting a business, raising a family, and retiring well, among others. Ellevest is unique in taking into account womens longer lifespans and different salary curves, combined with her current financial picture, to construct highly customized investment portfolios for each of her goals. Ellevests unique algorithms are designed to get the client to her goal number or better in 70% of market scenarios, higher than traditional financial advisors. Working at Ellevest Ellevest is a leading tech company in New York City, with a thriving team across our engineering, product, marketing, client experience, investments, and operations organizations. We place a major emphasis on building a team and working environment where individuals can succeed professionally and personally. As a team member at Ellevest, you can expect to make a difference through your work, to have a direct impact on the achievement of a very meaningful mission, to significantly advance your career trajectory, and to have room for fun and fulfillment in your daily life. We know that achieving a mission as critical as ours requires incredible talent and teamwork, and team is the most important thing to us. In 2017, CNBC listed Ellevest as one of their Top 25 Most Promising Startups on a path to becoming tomorrows household names. We are working every day to make that a reality, and create a brand and a service that fosters female financial independence.
  • Industry
    Financial Services