Intern, Platform Engineering

Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies on a mission to deliver outstanding value and operational performance by combining financial strength and stability with deep insurance expertise and a can-do culture. Group1001’s culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication, core business focus, risk management, and striving for outcomes. This goal extends to how we hire and onboard our most valuable assets – our employees.

Group 1001, and its affiliated companies, is strongly committed to providing a supportive work environment where employee differences are valued. Diversity is an essential ingredient in making Group 1001 a welcoming place to work and is fundamental in building a high-performance team. Diversity embodies all the differences that make us unique individuals.  All employees share the responsibility for maintaining a workplace culture of dignity, respect, understanding and appreciation of individual and group differences.

Job Summary:

This intern position will work closely with our highly skilled Platform Engineering team, focusing on building the core and/or pieces of our multi-Cloud abstraction layer that supports our AWS, Azure and GCP landscapes. The position requires a passion for platform and/or software engineering, as our distributed, durable execution platform is currently built with Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Java. As the business and technical processes managed by the platform are best modeled as directed, acyclical graphs, the position will also require a willingness to conceptualize and interact with graph/network data structures. While candidates are not expected to be fluent in all of these technologies or concepts, demonstrated capability in software and/or platform engineering coursework is suggested to get the most out of the position.

Main Accountabilities:

• Write code in one or more languages alongside highly talented teammates
• Participate in grooming ceremonies to help break down complex processes and technical problems into manageable user stories and tasks
• Integrate with a flourishing engineering team with numerous problems to solve
• Align to and interact with peers within the bounds of a Spotify Agile(-ish) model

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate students completing their sophomore or junior year pursuing Computer Science or Information Technology Majors.
• Availability to work full-time hours over the summer.

• Interest in solving technical problems with well-structured code.
• Basic understanding of Cloud Computing.
• Ability to work tasks independently and participate in team ceremonies, formal and otherwise.
• Willingness to try, fail fast and iterate.
• Excellent communication skills, with a willingness to give and take feedback.

Benefits Highlights:  

Employees who meet benefit eligibility guidelines and work 30 hours or more weekly, have the ability to enroll in Group 1001’s benefits package. Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the Company’s comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plan options.  Employees are also eligible for Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability, and to enroll in the Company’s Employee Assistance Program and other wellness initiatives.  Employees may also participate in the Company’s 401K plan, with matching contributions by the Company.