Data Product Engineering Intern - Undergraduate

MyDataProduct is a boutique data engineering consultancy and data product development shop.

Leveraging best-in-class talent, technologies, and techniques—we partner with ambitious clients to engineer data-enabled solutions to mission-critical business problems.

We are looking for a undergraduate Data Product Engineering Intern for a paid, 100% remote, 6-week internship. The expected weekly time commitment for this opportunity is 10 to 20 hours per week.

Please note that this internship is a 1099 contract opportunity, not a W2 opportunity.

This opportunity may be a good fit if

•You are comfortable working 100% remotely as part of a distributed team

•You excel at independent execution of complex engineering projects

•Your work products demonstrate a high level of attention to detail and the ability to see the big picture

•Your aptitude, mindset, and ability to learn quickly make up for shortcomings in your current skill set

This role may require you to

•Develop data productweb applications using Flask and other Python-centric frameworks/packages

•Provision and maintain cloud-based infrastructure via Terraform

•Engineer and maintain production-grade data pipelines

•Leverage Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Storage, and other GCP services to build secure, performant, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective data product solutions

•Test, deploy, and maintain Dockerized applications

•Interface with local and cloud-based Redis servers

•Translate user interface mockups/prototypes into custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

•Code custom data integrations and data platform features

•Document source code, architectural designs, research, development plans, and engineering standards to enable solution modularity, reproducibility, portability, collaboration, and knowledge sharing

•Collaborate with teammates using Slack, Figma, Google Meet, and/or other software

An ideal candidate has

•A solid conceptual understanding of the complementary value of data engineering, data science, and software engineering in the development of data products

•Experience building and deploying data pipelines

•Proficiency in functional and object-oriented Python

•Experience building full-stack web applications

•Experience using Git-based version control in a team setting

•Demonstrated ability to write and/or use custom APIs

•Familiarity with frontend web frameworks such as Bootstrap

•Experience writing modular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

•Practical understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices

•Effective modular thinking skills evidenced by the ability to break down large, intricate undertakings into a series of smaller self-contained tasks

•Excellent written and verbal communication skills

•Emotional intelligence and coachability

All details of this job description are subject to change at any time, at the sole discretion of MyDataProduct.