About the Team

We are looking for a Software Engineering Intern for the 2023 Spring and Summer Season to join our quickly growing team to help take the modern pharmacy national. Our engineering team values impact, collaboration, and learning which make Alto a great environment for developing and growing your skills. You will receive structured training, mentorship, and candid real-time feedback to support your professional development. As a Software Engineering Intern you will have the opportunity to ship code across the stack and work on technical challenges across a wide range.

Accelerate your career as you:

• Increase the conversion of our patient app onboarding and delivery scheduling flows
• Automate standard patient and doctor outreach so our pharmacy teams can focus on more complex cases
• Optimize the performance of our web applications as we approach hypergrowth 
• Build features in our pharmacy app, such as one that allows authorized managers to configure the US states in which their team members are licensed to review prescriptions

A bit about you:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Are a rising university senior or a recent graduate of a coding bootcamp.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Are proficient in at least one programming language. At Alto, we mainly use Ruby on Rails and Go on the backend and React on the frontend, but experience with these specific technologies is not required.
• Have experience with web development on the frontend, backend, or both.
• Thrive in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment and have a growth mindset. You're unafraid to dive into an unfamiliar problem but humble enough to make mistakes and iterate.
• Embody Alto’s values and are passionate about our mission to improve the quality of life for everyone who needs medicine.

Additional Physical Job Requirements:

• Read English, comprehend, and follow simple oral and written instructions. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading. Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
• Communicating with others to exchange information. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Frequent repeating motions required to operate a computer that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
• Sedentary work: Sitting most of the time, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Walking and standing are required only occasionally.

Want to learn more about Alto? Check out our blog here: https://blog.alto.com