Software Engineer Intern

at  Business Insider

THIS IS A SIX MONTH, FULL TIME POSITION COMMENCING JANUARY 2025.

Business Insider is for people who are driven, optimistic and always looking forward. Our mission is to inspire action through thought-provoking stories. We tell our audience what they want and need to know to improve their lives and the world with storytelling that is accessible, smart, sometimes unexpected, and always helpful. Our team members embody and uphold Business Insider’s three core values: we are all one team, we are effective, and we strive to get better every day.
Our DaD (Delivery and Distribution) team is one of solving interesting delivery problems at scale, with a relatively small team. We value speed and simplicity.

WHO’S ELIGIBLE?

This opportunity is open to anyone with some foundational programming skills. Whether you’ve learned through formal education, bootcamps or self-study, we want people who have a passion for technology and are eager to learn.
There’s no formal education requirement. We’re simply looking for candidates who can show us they have what it takes to contribute. A commitment to learning and a desire to work with Business Insider’s technology team are essential.

SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN HIGH-DEMAND TOOLS

Build proficiency in Golang, JavaScript and MongoDB, while learning about API and microservice implementations—skills in high demand across industries.

MENTORSHIP FROM EXPERIENCED ENGINEERS

Work alongside experienced backend engineers, learning directly from professionals passionate about creating the best solutions and building scalable systems.

TO ENSURE THE BEST FIT FOR YOUR SKILLS AND GOALS, PLEASE APPLY ONLY TO THE INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY THAT ALIGNS MOST CLOSELY WITH YOUR CAREER ASPIRATIONS!

Are you passionate about this opportunity, but worried that you don’t have 100% of the experience we’re looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to Business Insider.
About Business Insider:
Business Insider is a global journalism company that covers the world of business, tech, innovation, and beyond. With headquarters in New York and offices in San Francisco, London, Belfast, and Singapore, we reach an audience of more than 375 million with storytelling that’s fascinating, unexpected, and always helpful.
As a company, we strive to be inspiring and effective, we value Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Our company motto is “get better every day,” which means we value all people. Diversity reflects the different life experiences, identities, and perspectives that make each of us unique. For more information on our DEI mission click here

THE ROLE & TEAM:

As a DaD engineering intern, you will be working alongside a talented group of engineers to drive reliability and trust in our content and build systems to solve business challenges.
You will have the opportunity to diagnose issues in our content platform, and propose and implement solutions. This may include immediate bugs or problems but also will also be part of the team to tackle longer-term challenges in support of our get better every day culture.
You will learn our content schema and caching model that focuses on performance and speed and work within that framework to find the best way to deliver the needed content to meet the requirements for specific projects.
Finally you will work on various applications within the platform for improving the publishing and retrieval of our content for all our stakeholders, including our syndication service as well as enhancing our story data all in effort to improve the user experience with our stories.
This role reports directly to the senior director of engineering for delivery and sits on the delivery team. This role will be hybrid with the expectation to be in the Belfast office on average two or three days per week.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with the Delivery team to understand our content schema and content publishing platform.
• Assist in implementing projects that improve our content reliability.
• Participate in the development of new features and systems
• Communicate effectively with product team and other members of the data group about initiatives and feature improvements