Software Development Intern

Description

Job Title: Software Development Intern

Date: 01/06/2025

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Department: Engineering

Status: Non-Exempt – Seasonal Intern

General Summary:

The mission of Portage Learning is to transform lives and communities by providing learning opportunities for all who aspire to thrive. We do this not only through superior online instruction, but with a deep commitment to expanding access to education. We believe service is the thread that binds our community and our team together. To that end, we choose to …

• Believe the best in our employees
• Invest in our people
• Collaborate with humility, respect, and appreciation
• Cultivate curiosity and encourage creativity.

The Software Development Intern will build software that will sync data between internal systems and 3rd-party service providers. The Intern will be responsible for implementing this effort and will work closely with the supervisor to design the API and/or web application with which it will interface.

Key Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function(s).

• Assist in the development, debugging, and testing of code. 
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes. 
• Engage in code reviews to learn best practices within Portage, provide feedback and understand code quality standards.
• Work with an agile team of developers to meet the technical needs of the company week to week.
• Analyze data to generate meaningful analytics and find correlations between multiple data sets for predictive analysis.
• Engage in weekly professional development sessions as part of the summer internship cohort, cultivating collaboration, strengthening skills, and encouraging continuous learning. 
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge/Skills Required:

• Familiarity with back-end technologies such as Python, C# and MySQL.
• Experience working with and/or building APIs (REST, JSON, JWT is a bonus).
• Experience with front-end technologies/frameworks (modern JavaScript, React, Blazor) is a plus.
• Experience in design tools such as Photoshop, Balsamiq (wire-framing) and Figma (high fidelity mock ups)
• Front end design experience for UI and UX design.
• Demonstrates a self-motivated and results-driven approach in a fast-paced environment, consistently delivering high-quality results while understanding the significance of automated testing. 
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Must be service oriented with a focus on helping others.

Qualifications (Education Requirements/Experience):

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field. 
• Successful completion of a background check and current and/or ability to obtain the following clearances: Child Abuse, State Police, and FBI Fingerprinting.
• Demonstrated agreement with and vision for the stated mission, philosophy, values, and goals of Portage Learning.

Requirements

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, projectors, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Regularly required to sit; talk and hear, use hands to type, file, handle or feel. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. Occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Visual acuity to use a keyboard, prepare and analyze data and figures; transcribing, viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
• May require ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations; or the ability to stand, walk, lift, carry and move light to medium weight. Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and learn technical information.
• Light lifting is required. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force to constantly move objects.

Position Types and Expected Hours to work:

This is a summer internship, full-time position. Days and hours of work are typically 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Must be able to work from the office located in Chippewa Township, PA.

Travel:

This job does not require travel outside of the office.

Other Duties Disclaimer:

This is not an all-inclusive document. Additional duties, expectations, demands, etc. may be added or changed to this document on an as-needed basis in order to meet organizational goals.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.