Engineering Intern

Location: At the moment, a majority of us are working remotely however, we have an office in New York City where this role can be based out of, or this role can be fully remote in the US ( subject to your right to legally work within the jurisdiction) . We do work EST hours and the preference is that this person sits in the CST or EST zones.

About OpenFin

OpenFin is a fast-growing financial technology company backed by the world’s largest banks and most respected Fintech VCs, including J.P. Morgan, Barclays, HSBC, Wells Fargo, Bain Capital Ventures, DRW, Nyca Partners, and Pivot Investment Partners. OpenFin modernizes and democratizes app development and distribution in the finance space. We provide a secure OS that brings a fast and intuitive app experience to the financial desktop. Built on Google’s Chromium and GitHub’s Electron open source projects, OpenFin combines native experience, data sharing, lightning-fast distribution, and robust security with an agile web development and deployment model to accelerate digital transformation and innovation. OpenFin is used by thousands of developers to deploy and run more than 3500 apps at more than 2400 financial institutions.

Recent Awards

"The Best Workplace for Change and Transformation" 2021 by Harrington Star "Best New Technology Introduced over the last 12 Months for Infrastructure" for our Workspace product at the prestigious American Financial Technology Awards 2021, hosted by WatersTechnology.com

About the Role

We are seeking out Frontend Engineer Interns for our Late Spring/ Summer Internship Program. The ideal candidate will be interested in developing their skills, while becoming a contributing member of our Product Engineering team. You should be excited about learning new languages, frameworks and technologies. At the conclusion of the Internship Program, successful candidates will be considered for a full time permanent position, or given the opportunity to continue on in a PT capacity.

Responsibilities

Your work here at OpenFin will cover a range of interests and areas of expertise that can scale to what you would like to learn! The following are three key areas where you could contribute:

Contribute to the OpenFin UI Library: 

• Architect and build accessible, extensible, and well-tested React components used in several OpenFin products shipping this year.

Help shape the OpenFin Developer Experience:

• Build out automation and testing, documentation, prototypes, and have the opportunity to give tech talks. Here you can help optimize and build out our engineering processes.
• You will also create community knowledge with product engineering teams, working with the UI Library.

Contribute to building new features:

• Deliver a best-in-class user experience in OpenFin products.

What We’re Looking For

• A user-focused, empathetic person who wants to collaborate, write, talk, and dream about code that people will love to use.
• Comfortable building React components and a passion for making them pixel perfect.
• Awareness of accessibility best practices, progressive enhancement, the DOM / Shadow DOM and how React “works” under the hood.
• Familiarity and an interest in using Typescript, Styled Components, and Framer Motion. 
• An interest in learning cross-platform development for Mac and Windows using Electron and modern tools and frameworks like Webpack and NextJS.

A Few Of Our Product Engineering Values

• Code with Empathy—write your code thinking about the person who might use it next, that person might be you ;)
• Don’t follow the GPS into the lake: we like when engineers are intuitive, critical and opinionated on what they want to work on and how they think things should be built. Design debates as a way to continually improve our processes and software are a core element of our Engineering culture. We want people who strive to make things better and are always willing to learn from others.
• Don’t take all of the blame—when software breaks, we’re all on the hook. We share knowledge, responsibility, and an excitement for fixing things when we discover them. 

Life at OpenFin

At OpenFin, our mission is to stay on the cutting edge of web technologies and to enable our customers to do the same. While we are currently remote, we pride ourselves on our friendly, diverse, understanding office culture. Our goal is to create a space where employees can learn and innovate, and overall, have a good time doing it. Our employees have a diverse set of interests and experiences, and we encourage you to explore those interests and share with us! We have regular happy hours and social events. Our office and our employees are conducive to a productive learning experience -- all the while creating innovative and compelling solutions for our clients.