UX Engineer Intern - Hybrid (May 2027)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Des Moines, Northern (IA, KY); Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is offering a Software Engineer Internship on the User Experience Team in Des Moines. This internship supports a hybrid schedule and begins May 2027, ideal for current CS/CE/MIS students exploring UI/UX in health tech.

You will collaborate with UX Designers, Engineers, and stakeholders, contributing to UI artifacts, troubleshooting, and maintaining documentation while gaining real-world software experience.

Qualifications

• Current junior, senior or master’s student pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS, or related field.
• Experience or knowledge of software development technologies (Angular, NodeJS, TypeScript, C++, .NET, Java, or SQL).
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills. Accuracy and high attention to detail and self-starter.
• Ability to troubleshoot and develop creative technical solutions.
• Demonstrated computer skills with Microsoft Office products (Word, Access, PowerPoint and Excel).
• Ability to gather information, perform necessary research needed for root cause analysis, problem definition and formulation, recommend solution using data to support recommendations.
• Excellent writing and communication skills to communicate with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment with changing priorities. Excellent organizational skills. Strong time management skills with the ability to set and meet established timeframes with little direction, while assuring data and information integrity.

Responsibilities

• Provide day to day experiences of collaboration and partnership with various leaders and team members; focus on small scale deliverables, building interpersonal relationships, exposure to cross divisional elements of the Wellmark organization
• Assist with the management and troubleshooting of multiple applications in support of Wellmark's systems
• In collaboration with application operations, assist and work with Technology and business stakeholders to troubleshoot and provide production support to research and find root cause for systems errors
• Develop business knowledge of the application necessary to effectively provide support maintenance
• Participate in the development of complex UI artifacts used by multiple development teams
• Maintain documentation and code examples which describe usage and best practices
• Work closely with UX Designers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure user experience is integral part of creation process from start to finish
• Collaborate in a team environment with shared code; disciplined use of source code control and process documentation.

Skills

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Written communication

Research and analysis

Time management

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Self-starter

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/MIS or related

Tools

Angular

NodeJS

TypeScript

C++

.NET

Java

SQL

Job description

Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is offering a Software Engineer Internship on the User Experience Team in Des Moines. This internship supports a hybrid schedule and begins May 2027, ideal for current CS/CE/MIS students exploring UI/UX in health tech.

You will collaborate with UX Designers, Engineers, and stakeholders, contributing to UI artifacts, troubleshooting, and maintaining documentation while gaining real-world software experience.