Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)
About the Role
Sigma’s Engineering organization is a dynamic, high performing team of Software Engineers who complement each other's skills. Our Engineers design, implement, and scale technical solutions that power our core product and enable our users to make data driven decisions in their businesses. As a Software Engineering Intern, you will experiment, prototype, and implement features that help our global user base analyze and gather insights from their data. During your internship, you’ll partner directly with your engineering mentor, as well as collaborate with other teams across the business. From Product Designers, Product Managers, Sales, and, of course, actual users, you will collaborate across the company to determine the best solution for your technical challenge. Interns will take their project from ideation through implementation, iterating and gathering feedback along the way. As an intern, you will deploy features and gather insights from customer metrics to aid you in making better development decisions and improve your business acumen.
Responsibilities
- Learn how to build production software and understand how large Single Page Applications are built and extended with the user experience top of mind
- Experience how backend scales to handle multiple customers and billions of data points while keeping user information secure
- Gain an understanding of how to own a development project from beginning to end
- Develop automated unit tests to get the relevant code coverage and work with product owners and techpubs to document your work
- Partner with other Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers
- Design and deliver innovative solutions to improve the Sigma user experience by implementing new features into our product
- Find new ways to optimize the performance of one or more components of the product
Qualifications
- Currently enrolled in a university undergraduate or graduate degree program in the U.S with a graduation date of December 2027 or later
- Able to intern from June 2027 through August/early September 2027 (dates flexible)
- Legally authorized to work in the US during the Summer 2027 program (visa sponsorship not available)
- Must be able to work in-person in our San Francisco, CA or New York, NY office for the duration of the internship
- Relocation assistance provided as a bonus for those needing to relocate
Skills
- Pursuing at least a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Intermediate to advanced grasp of Operating Systems, Data structures, algorithms and at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.
- Excited to learn and build complex user interfaces, data visual