Summer Internship – Web/Mobile Development Aetna
Location – San Francisco
Salary -$14.00-$17.00 per hour
12 week program
Aetna’s Undergraduate Summer Intern Program gives students experience in a given functional area. It also provides a range of experience through company-wide programs. These include:
• Classroom and online-based training
• An executive speaker series
• Social and community service events
• A cross-functional final project
Our internships are paid. They typically last 10 to 12 weeks, for 40 hours a week, from May to August. Most are based at our corporate headquarters in Hartford, Conn., with additional positions at Aetna offices across the country.
The internship program offers college students an opportunity to use your creativity and fresh viewpoint in a health care company that thrives on change. You’ll work hard — and make a difference, too. Internships are a great way to put book knowledge to real-world use. They give you a chance to explore career interests through exciting work assignments.
What is InvolveCare:
There are more than 10 million people caring for aging parents in the United States and that doesn’t count all of those also caring for children. With the aging US population, caregiving has become a family, social, health, and economic challenge that requires real solutions. Enter InvolveCare.
InvolveCare makes it easy to get others involved in caregiving for the people we love. InvolveCare is a multiplatform service that helps caregivers create a private care network of family and friends, request help with activities like rides, tasks, and errands, and organize and record doctors’ appointments among other activities. InvolveCare is funded by Healthagen, a business incubator of start-up and innovative health-tech companies based in San Francisco.
We are looking for a rock-star Software Engineer who wants to make real change in the world. We want someone who has the technology talent to solve problems that can help millions and likely oneself. Flexible thinking and self-motivation are all welcome traits at InvolveCare. Get involved in helping people who care for others..
Here at InvolveCare, we…
• Work in an exciting and collaborative start-up and incubator setting. Emerging health-tech innovators and startups surround you.
• Enjoy a great office space with 360-degree views of San Francisco. It feels like an incubator on top of the world.
• Are steps away from BART. It’s actually right beneath us in the basement–Montgomery Station.
• Strive on innovation and make exciting things happen in health-tech.
• Offer an opportunity to contribute to a meaningful product that will improve the health and well-being of its end users.
Aetna does not permit the use of tobacco related products or drugs in the workplace.
Who You Are:
• Someone who cares about the details but understands and is able to see the whole picture.
• Someone who likes rolling-up their sleeves and diving in, and isn’t afraid to tackle any obstacle, especially in a fast-paced start-up environment.
• Self-motivated and comfortable looking at the big picture and driving your choices based on that. Looking at what you need to do, and doing it head-on.
• Someone with a passion and creativity for visually appealing tech.
• Someone who truly believe in building great user experience into software products.
• Someone who’s a great communicator and collaborator, and also has strong analytical skills.
Things You’ll Be Doing:
• Assist with the building of mobile/web software and assist with software design and development.
• Build with a focus on client and server side aspects of web and mobile based applications. Build an awesome software stack that meets the short and long term needs of the product.
• Collaborate with UI/UX design and Product Management, to ensure that software solutions meet or exceed expectations.
Technical Chops We’d like you to have:
• Currently pursuing a Bachelors in Computer Science.
• Good web and/or mobile development skills and willingness to learn new technology. We’d love to see your app in an app store or on the web.
• Strong computer skills
• Desired- knowledge or experience building software with Ruby on Rails stack, JavaScript MVC frameworks such as Backbone or similar.
• Desired - knowledge of working with a content management system.
Aetna does not permit the use of tobacco related products or drugs in the workplace.
Job Function: Special Situations