Intern, Software Development Engineer

**About Workato**:
**Why join us?**:
Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a **flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles**. We are driven by **innovation**and looking for** team players**who want to actively build our company.

But, we also believe in **balancing productivity with self-care**. That's why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.

Also, feel free to check out why:

- Business Insider named us an "enterprise startup to bet your career on"
- Forbes' Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world
- Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America
- Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers

**Responsibilities**:
We are looking for highly motivated** Software Engineering Intern** that believe in specializing in creating exceptional user experiences for our users. You will need strong software engineering skills, excellent interpersonal communication, and experience accepting and giving meaningful feedback on technical designs.

You will also be responsible to:

- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve bugs and issues with software programming code that arise during testing and contribute to our CI/CD process, software performance tuning and optimization
- Research and develop advanced algorithms to get real-time performance
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to understand customer needs, implement solutions, and deliver compelling products
- Write well designed, testable, and efficient code
- Contribute to all phases of the development life-cycle
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting them for review
- Evaluate and propose improvements to Workato's connectors and platform

**Requirements**:
**Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills**:

- BS/MS Degree in Computer Science, Computer engineering, Information systems or equivalent
- A good foundation in software engineering principles, including object-oriented programming and design patterns
- Prior internship experience in a Software engineering role
- Excellent debugging, analytical, problem-solving, and social skills
- Contributions to open-source projects is a plus
- Experience in Ruby is a plus

**Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics**:

- Internship Experience. You have internship level (or more) experience coding and shipping production grade software.
- Passionate about systems design and robust software. Our backend platform changes often as we work and experiment to bring credit to as many people as we can. We are passionate about software architecture and fault tolerant production systems.
- Displays inclusivity, kindness, and humility. Our inclusive and collaborative culture is what makes Workato a great place to work. We need diverse people who embody our core values to make it even greater.
- Strong self-management, sense of ownership, and organization. Workato's open and collaborative environment enables proactive and organized employees to really shine.
- Collaborative, empathetic, listens with intent. Communication of complex, ever-changing business and technology concepts is hard. Creating a shared understanding and path forward via an open discussion is commonplace at Workato.
- Detail-oriented; a strong focus on testing frameworks. Workato's systems are complex and mission-critical. We rely on strong testing frameworks and a focus on the details of requirements to deliver features correctly.
- Weighs trade-offs and focuses on value delivery. A fast-paced startup demands making trade-offs that balance the near term and long term value add of solutions. At Workato, we design robust systems, but try not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.