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Backend Engineering Intern
Location
California + 2 moreAll locations: California | New York | Oregon
Posted
152 days ago
Salary
$55 / hour
Seniority
Entry Level
Job Description
Backend Engineering Intern
Mercury
• Collaborate with data analysts to spec and build features that draw new customers to our product. • Provide a backend to our mobile and web frontends, to do things like search transactions or send wire transfers. • Build admin tools to increase the efficiency of day-to-day support operations, like identifying fraudulent customers or managing accounts. • Integrate with third-party APIs, to do things like send checks or validate SWIFT codes.
Job Requirements
- Experience using the Haskell programming language, or a strong desire to learn it
- Some familiarity with SQL
Benefits
- Paid full-time remote summer internship for 12-16 weeks between September and December
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