By interning with us, you will:
- work on a real project that matters; write software that will be deployed live and be used by all our customers
- get firsthand experience working on a live, multi-tenant, hosted application with very frequent updates
- use a variety technologies and languages (Ruby, Rails, RSpec, D3.js and React, to name a few)
- experience what it is to work in a well organized software development team
- help improve a cutting-edge scientific collaboration platform used by industry, foundations and academia
- write code to perform statistical calculations to process and summarize data
- develop rich interfaces for scientific data presentation and comparison
The ideal intern has some combination of the following:
- currently pursuing a BS, MS or PhD in computer science (cheminformatics or bioinformatics a plus)
- has a strong software foundation including OOP and algorithms
- is proficient in at least one programing language (ideally Ruby or JavaScript)
- has a passion for (or a strong interest in) TDD and agile development
- knows Rails or another comparable web application development framework
