Software Engineer Intern

Internship Opportunity 

Dialpad is seeking Product Engineering Interns to work within our in-house Product Engineering department. This is an exciting opportunity to gain valuable technological and programming skills by solving technical problems in a SaaS company that’s focused on delivering a cloud-based communications platform to improve business communications everywhere!

This is a paid internship that will last for a minimum of six months. 

About the team

Every engineer on our global Engineering team is given the opportunity to take ownership of a large portion of the product where they’re able to see immediate results. Combining natural language processing and artificial intelligence with world-class cloud computing, the things you’ll create at Dialpad will shape the future of work—enabling companies to work from anywhere and making business communication more human. There is no idea too crazy and no task too small — we work together to make things we’re proud of for lifetime!

What you’ll do

In your first 30 days

• You'll experience our unique onboarding process and learn about Dialpad's culture & values.
• You'll bond with your dedicated mentor who will help you to onboard, learn the basics of our tech stack, find quick-win projects, review your code and deploy it.
• You’ll meet and start learning from experienced software engineers and technical leaders from all backgrounds - from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Stanford, MIT and many more.
• You’ll start building relationships within your team.

In your first 60 days

• You’ll learn about various teams in Product, Design, Engineering, and QA and how they work together for building and launching great product features at a rapid pace - we release our software every week!
• You’ll be part of a specific team and project, and start gaining in-depth exposure to how a real engineering team works, from feature definition to shipping code to production.
• You'll design a solution with other engineers to fix a scalability problem and then implement it.
• You’ll network with Dialers across multiple teams.

Beyond 90 days

• You'll build, test, and deploy product-facing features with great quality, performance and scalability requirements.
• You’ll collaborate with and incorporate feedback from Product Managers and Engineering leaders to do meaningful work while also growing your expertise.
• You'll build and improve internal tools to empower engineering teams to be more productive and scalable.
• You’ll become proficient in one or more of the following technologies: Python, VueJS, REST APIs, HTML/CSS, JSON, NoSQL, WebRTC, WebSockets, Google Cloud Platform, ElasticSearch etc.
• You’ll learn how to build easy-to-use, scalable, robust, high volume interactive client/server applications.
• You’ll develop connections across the company.

Who you are

You’re eager and passionate about working with a team of highly skilled engineers to tackle challenges that are unique to Dialpad. Matching your ambition with curiosity, you can’t wait to work with a large scale of data and distributed systems on the cloud. You are hoping for new challenges everyday to redefine and impact the way businesses communicate globally. With programming experience, and excellent written and verbal communication skills, you own the code that you’ve written and feel pride in efficient monitoring, full test coverage, and good documentation. Passionate about creating a profound user experience, with an eye for detail, you are excited to work cross-functionally across Dialpad to implement compelling solutions.

Skills you’ll bring

• You’ve good knowledge of at least one programming language and have the ability to fearlessly dive into new and unfamiliar technologies. Basic knowledge of Python and/or JavaScript will be a plus.
• You’ve strong hands-on experience and understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
• You’re pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or related fields. We encourage you to share projects that demonstrate your interest and passion for engineering.
• You’re available to work with our engineering teams for a minimum of 6 months as we want you to learn great abilities to build large scale distributed systems which will accelerate your career.