Intern – Software Engineer, Digital Commerce (Hybrid: Onsite & Remote)

US Foods; Rosemont (IL); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Paid internship (40 hours/week)

Potential for full-time afterGraduatio

Job summary

US Foods invites students to join its Summer Internship Program in Rosemont, IL, for a hands-on experience across front-end and back-end web development. Interns work on APIs, data transformation, and user-facing applications, under direct supervision and with mentorship from leaders.

The internship runs June–August, is full-time and paid, and includes exposure to executive leadership and real-world projects.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/IS/related field and enrolled during internship.
• Junior/Senior undergraduate or first/second year graduate students considered.
• OO programming coursework or practical experience.
• Java development coursework or experience.
• Database server development experience.
• Web application development or hands-on website development experience.
• Experience integrating front-end templates with back-end functionality.
• Experience with front-end web development languages.

Responsibilities

• Assist in project ideation from concept to delivery.
• Gather information from existing systems and analyze requirements.
• Prepare detailed specifications for programs to be developed.
• Develop moderately complex programs.
• Ensure programs meet standards and specifications.
• Develop test plans to verify logic of new or modified programs.
• Create documentation of code and technical artifacts.
• Assist support and project personnel in resolving program issues.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

Java

Databases

Web development

HTML/CSS/JS

JSON

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Git

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/IS/related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

WebLogic

Tomcat

JDBC

JMS

Web Services

J2EE

Applet

Servlet

JSP

Swagger

AWS

New Relic

Git

Job description

ARE YOU A CURRENT US FOODS EMPLOYEE? PLEASE APPLY DIRECTLY THROUGH OUR INTERNAL WORKDAY CAREER SITE

Join Our Community of Food People!

The US Foods Summer Internship Program provides a forum for students to apply classroom skills and academic training in a real-world business environment. In addition to being assigned business-impacting projects throughout the summer, students will be matched with a manager who will meet with them on a regular basis to provide direction on assignments as well as deliver performance feedback and a mentor who will be available to offer day-to-day guidance and support.

Interns will also get exposure to US Foods executive leadership; have an opportunity to participate in learning and social events with other interns across business functions and have an opportunity to deliver an end of summer presentation to showcase their accomplishments with key business leaders.

US Foods internships are full-time paid positions (40 hours per week from June - August) with the possibility of transitioning to a full-time position post-graduation dependent on availability and overall performance.

This position has been segmented as Hybrid meaning the work is a combination of onsite and remote.

Please note: We are unable to provide internships to students that require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., OPT, F-1, H-1B or any other visa status) now or in the future.

[For Rosemont based internships only] Local candidates are encouraged to apply. For qualified students whose permanent home of record is located outside 50 miles from US Foods Corporate HQ, a sign-on bonus will be offered to partially offset housing costs for the summer.

BASIC PURPOSE:

With direct supervision and oversight, this intern position provides exposure and opportunity to investigate a career, gain business knowledge and practical application of web and application development within the food distribution industry.

US Foods has a number of opportunities that will exercise and develop the intern’s skills in front-end and/or back-end web application development. Opportunities include our customer and employee web sites, portal-based internal applications, and mobile applications. The intern will engage in creating APIs that share product information, gather and submit order detail or execute data transformation services in addition to front end development all with the goal of creating an outstanding experience for users while leveraging the latest technologies.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist and participate in project ideation - from concept to delivery
• Gather information from existing systems, analyze program and time requirements
• Prepare detailed specifications from which programs are developed and coded
• Develop moderately complex programs
• Ensure programs meet standards and technical specifications
• Develop test plans to verify logic of new or modified programs
• Create documentation of work assignments such as program code and technical documentation
• Assist support and/or project personnel in resolving program issues

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems/Science or related area of study
• Must be enrolled in school during time of internship
• Typically, students currently between their Junior and Senior years or between their 1st and 2nd years of graduate school will be considered for internships
• Coursework or skill in object-oriented programming
• Coursework or skill in Java development
• Database server development experience
• Web application development experience OR hands-on website development experience
• Experience integrating front-end templates with back-end functionality
• Experience with front-end web development languages

PREFERRED SKILLS:

Coursework or experience with:

• Requirements gathering, design, implementation, integration and testing; developing database driven sites
• Microservice Architecture
• JDBC, JMS, Web Services, J2EE, Applet, Servlet, JSP, JSON
• HTML5, CSS3, Angular, JavaScript/jQuery
• WebLogic, Tomcat
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Kafka
• Swagger
• AWS (API Gateway, WebSocket, Lambda, EC2, S3)
• New Relic
• Git

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have regular, reliable method of transportation to commute to US Foods' location.

RELATIONSHIPS INTERNAL/EXTERNAL MAY INCLUDE:

• Internal: Core Team, Internal Business Clients
• External: Vendors
• EOE- Race/Color/Religion/Sex/SexualOrientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Age/Genetic Information/Protected Veteran/Disability Status***