Software Engineer - Intern

Job Description

At Fitbit, our mission is to help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration and guidance to reach their goals.

We started our journey in 2007—as a team of two with one big idea. Today, that idea has become a movement. Fitbit is now a publicly-traded company creating award-winning products and services that are available across the globe. We’re transforming the way the world sees health & fitness. In fact, the Fitbit Community has taken enough steps to walk from the Sun to Pluto. Our culture combines the spirit of startup with the perks of being public—offering a competitive benefits package and amazing perks like free lunches, Friday happy hours, on-site fitness classes and more. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, contribute your ideas to life-changing products and services, and—above all—have fun doing it.

Fitbit’s HQ campus is made up of three modern buildings located at the heart of SOMA in San Francisco. Monday-Friday you can feast your eyes on amazing views of the skyline, then feast yourself on some of the city’s best food trucks, lunch spots and coffee shops. When you’ve had your fill, lace up and make your way to the Ferry Building for the perfect post-work run or walk along the water (with the Bay Bridge as your backdrop)!

Think you’ve found your fit? See what we’re looking for below and apply today.
Requirements:

• Pursuing a BS, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures and algorithms)
• Passion for health and technology industry

Nice to haves:

• Side projects or open-source contributions
• Previous industry internship experience at technology company

Server/Infrastructure/Back End Engineer:

What you’ll do:

You’ll help bring solutions to the following areas: How do we handle drastic changes in user growth and data acquisition? What happens when users use the site for social interaction as opposed to data viewing? How do we speed up the response times of our site? How do we evaluate different distributed caching architectures? How do we integrate future devices into our ecosystem? How do we implement changes to our site?

Specializations in this discipline include (with description for each):

• Site Reliability: You’re the pulse for the software ecosystem. Responsible for the monitoring and improvement of our systems, you will also build automated systems to help manage our high traffic growth.
• Security: You will help provide secure products and services to all Fitbit customers. The security team ensures our Internet Infrastructure is robust from attacks through vulnerability and configuration management tasks.
• Java / Spring / Hibernate / etc: You will help maintain and create the backend logic that drives the product features for the Fitbit user experience across web, mobile, and third party APIs.
• Data Analytics Infrastructure: You will work to gather and analyze product performance metrics in order to help the business make decisions aboutfuture product directions, prototype performance, etc.

What we're looking for:

• Experience with: Java or equivalent OOP language
• Familiarity with frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, Struts
• Interest in Database design: MySQL, Redis, or Cassandra

Full Stack Engineer:

What you’ll do:

At Fitbit, you will work on a unique product in the emerging field of highly-connected consumer devices that combine physical devices, web, and mobile. You’ll build highly scalable database-backed web applications with rich interactive experiences. You'll be collaborating with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to implement prototypes and PSDs into launch-ready, pixel-perfect valid code.

Specializations in this discipline include (with description for each):

• HTML / JS / CSS: You’re capable of working both in the Java backend, and on the web front end. You’re interested in product design, visual design, and interaction design, as well as scalability of the backend systems that
• APIs, REST: You will help facilitate the creation of meaningful user experiences by providing connectivity to data. We aim to provide the best developer experience to internal and third-party developers.

What we're looking for:

• Experience with: HTML,CSS and JavaScript, Java
• Familiarity with frameworks: RequireJS, Backbone.js, Highcharts, jQuery, PhantomJS, and Node.js.
• Passion for usability and accessibility

Fitbit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or other statuses protected by law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Fitbit will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.