About the job
We are currently looking for co-ops starting in Spring/Summer 2022 and interns for Summer 2022. Note that this position will be based in our San Francisco, CA Headquarters office. We are open to relocating candidates from across the United States and Canada.
Front is a hub for customer communication that allows companies to offer tailor-made service at scale. Front operates like an email inbox, albeit a powerful one that allows for team collaboration on external communication through robust workflows, CRM integrations and insights. More than 6,500 businesses (Shopify, Dropbox, Better, to name a few!) use Front to work together to send out the best replies faster, keep messages organized across channels, and always maintain a personal touch. The result is a premier, personalized service that scales with the business — and a team that works together as one.
It’s an exciting time to join the engineering team at Front! With $138M in funding, Front is backed by Sequoia Capital, and other leading venture capital firms. Front was recently named to the Forbes Cloud 100 2020 , the definitive list of the top software companies in the world. We have also been recognized on LinkedIn’s 2020 Top Startups , Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2019 , The New York Times’ The Next Wave of ‘Unicorn’ Start-Ups , Fortune’s Best Small Workplaces , and Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work .
As an intern/co-op on our engineering team, you’ll help us reinvent the inbox for teams by working on high-impact projects like building new product features, improving our integrations framework, and optimizing customer onboarding. You’ll receive dedicated mentorship and learn from a world-class engineering and product team that’s experiencing rapid growth. Along the way, you’ll also become a part of Front’s award-winning company culture and learn how a successful organization scales. This is an exciting opportunity to have a path into a full-time role within the Front Engineering team, upon a successful internship.
What will you be doing?
- Be part of an engineering team and own a technical project that directly relate to your team’s goals and has customer-facing impact
- Collaborate with our talented team of engineers, designers, product managers in a fast-paced environment
- Partner closely with a dedicated engineering mentor to grow throughout the internship in line with your career ambitions
- Ship your project/s by the end of your internship!
What skills and experience do you need?
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, graduating in late 2022 or 2023
- Have at least one previous software engineering internship
- Have experience with one or more programming languages, including but not limited to: Javascript, Ruby, Python, C++, Objective-C, or Java
- Have solid technical knowledge including CS fundamentals and data structures
- Genuine curiosity for learning and desire for improvement
- Product-minded: committed to building a great experience for our users
Front provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.
