Job Description

Job Title: Software Development Intern

Reports To: Software Development Team Lead, Director of Technology and COO

Job Description: The Software Development Intern contributes to ONC’s mission of providing nonpartisan news, opinions, and policy solutions by completing essential tasks in the Technology department at ONC. The Software Development Intern is responsible for building and maintaining our website. This intern will research and use various software programs. They will also implement new features according to incoming design and functional requirements. The Software Development Intern will work closely with the Director of Technology, the Software Development Team Lead, various other team leads, but most work will be completed independently, therefore, time management is an essential skill for this role.

This position is remote, with work primarily conducted over Zoom and Slack, so applicants must be comfortable coordinating in a remote environment and are expected to maintain a high level of communication. This intern must commit to the Spring and Summer semester with us (August 31, 2024). However, many people choose to extend their internship past the amount of time they initially committed to, provided their performance meets the required standards.

Benefits : Flexible schedule, college credit, professional networking, and resume-building experience.

Compensation: This is not a paid position.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain a website from scratch using frameworks
• Connect and maintain a database to the website
• Implement new features according to incoming design and functional requirements
• Document the code base and general structure of the overall product
• Write high quality applications that can achieve massive scale
• Documenting user requirements, creating design documents, developing self-documented code, testing, creating user and system documents
• Communicate effectively with the team leads, Director of Technology, Director of Technology, and COO as needed

Qualifications

Requirements: The Software Development Intern should have the following skills, education, and experience:

• Interest in Software Development or working towards a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, and/or related fields
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English) are required
• Knowledge and proficiency with OOP principles
• Willing to learn general programming principles and skills as well as specific frameworks and methodologies on the job as well as being open to using various tools
• Able to work collaboratively in a team-setting
• Responsive, consistent, and effective communicator, even during conflict
• Ability to work remotely and on their own schedule in order to make deadlines
• Attention to detail is required
• Google Workspace experience preferred
• Ability to attend weekly Organization-wide meetings
• Ability to attend weekly Community Department meetings
• Must be authorized to intern in the U.S.

Preferred Skills:

● Github

● Python (Django)

● JavaScript (ReactJs)

● AWS

● SQL

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.