Chipper Cash Summer Internship Programme 2022

Job Description

• We are looking for a Software Engineering Intern to join us as we continue our amazing growth trajectory. Chipper's Summer Internships gives college students the opportunity to augment their education by taking on meaningful real-world projects over a 3 month span during the summer break from college. Our Interns gain a solid understanding of Chipper, our mission, and what it's like to work at a growth stage company.

Your Mission

• You’ll be learning from and working with other Software Engineers on the Money Movement Engineering team.
• This team develops and matures the backend engineering systems which handle the flow of money within, onto, and off of the Chipper Cash platform. These systems process billions of dollars and are a crucial part of the Chipper Cash platform and experience for the people that use Chipper Cash to send money around the world.
• After being onboarded, you’ll be assigned to work on a small project either with another engineer or with a mentor to help guide and champion your success. You will be part of all regular team meetings and normal functions such as sprint planning and code reviews.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, develop, and maintain Chipper’s money movement systems, integrations, and infrastructure
• Analyze technical problems, ideate and document solutions, and champion their adoption
• Review technical specifications and code from other engineers, proactively providing guidance and suggestions to improve individuals and systems
• Pair and learn with and from other engineers on the team and wider engineering organization
• Collaborate and work with a distributed, diverse, and talented group of people across engineering, product, design, operations, growth, and more.
• Foster a welcoming and inclusive environment that empowers people to grow and succeed.
• Help out in other areas as needed, such as with issue resolution, incidents and investigations, engineering wide initiatives, and other high impact work.

What You Should Have

• Experience programming in a modern programming language such as JavaScript, Java, C#, or Python
• Basic knowledge of relational databases, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, and the ability to write simple SQL queries with joins between tables
• Experience using modern source control, such as Git and Github
• Prior backend development or integrating APIs is a plus. Candidates without this experience will be provided on-job training and mentoring
• Excellent communication, both written and oral.
• Good organization and time management skills.

About Our Tech Stack

• Fullstack Typescript
• Fully automated CI/CD using Semaphore and Github Unit testing with Jest/Mocha.

Backend:

• Node.js - service-based architecture
• PostgreSQL application databases
• RabbitMQ for inter-server communication
• Server hosting on Heroku and Google Cloud Platform Monitoring with Datadog & Logz.io
• Snowflake for data warehousing and analysis
• Python for in-depth data analysis, transformation, and reporting.

Mobile:

• React Native - Android / iOS application
• Monitoring with BugSnag & Amplitude
• Global state management with Redux
• Chipper UI design system powered by: Styled Components & StoryBook.

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Job Details

• We are looking for a Financial Analytics Intern to join us as we continue our amazing growth trajectory. 
• Chipper's Summer Internships gives college students the opportunity to augment their education by taking on meaningful real-world projects over a 3 month span during the summer break from college. 
• Our Interns gain a solid understanding of Chipper, our mission, and what it's like to work at a growth stage company.

Your Mission

• Work on the most impactful projects, including the Chipper Cash Data Platform and partner with the business to help us solve complex problems and provide new insights using data.

What You'll Be Doing

• In this role you’ll support analytical reporting and data initiatives that power finance and accounting. 
• As part of the analytics team, you will work with key stakeholders to create insights, identify opportunities, and help drive important business decisions.

What You Should Have

• Great communication and people skills. You communicate information, ideas and concepts clearly and with empathy for our users and colleagues
• A proactive, curious, and self-driven mindset. You follow through on items without being micromanaged when given appropriate direction. If something doesn’t look right, you dig deeper and ask why?
• You’re an organized person that can plan, organize and manage timelines effectively
• Willingness and eagerness to learn new tools and processes
• Exposure and knowledge of one or more Business Intelligence Visualization tools (Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, etc), bonus for SQL experience.

About Our Tech Stack

• Fullstack Typescript
• Fully automated CI/CD using Semaphore and Github Unit testing with Jest/Mocha.

Mobile:

• React Native - Android / iOS application
• Monitoring with BugSnag & Amplitude
• Global state management with Redux
• Chipper UI design system powered by: Styled Components & StoryBook

Backend:

• Node.js - service-based architecture
• PostgreSQL application databases
• RabbitMQ for inter-server communication
• Server hosting on Heroku and Google Cloud Platform Monitoring with Datadog & Logz.io
• Snowflake for data warehousing and analysis
• Python for in-depth data analysis, transformation, and reporting

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Job Description

• We are looking for a Global Marketing Intern to join us as we continue our amazing growth trajectory.
• Chipper's Summer Internships gives college students the opportunity to augment their education by taking on meaningful real-world projects over a 3 month span during the summer break from college. Our Interns gain a solid understanding of Chipper, our mission, and what it's like to work at a growth stage company.
• As a Global Marketing Intern at a fast-growing scale-up company, you will have the opportunity to get 1st hand experience executing Brand and Growth focused campaigns, market research, and data analysis at scale.
• We have a close knit culture centered on open-communication, honest feedback, and personal responsibility. You will not be micromanaged.
• The Chipper team is truly global - on a daily basis, you might be interacting with team members in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Brazil, Accra, Lagos, and Nairobi.

What You Should Have

• Strong interest in leveraging technology to improve access to financial services
• Strong interest in emerging markets - extra bonus for interest/experience in African markets
• Excellent writing skills and ability to match writing to brands Voice and Tone
• Strong interest in data and analytics, with a proficiency in Excel
• Some prior experience or very strong interest in product marketing, growth marketing, and/or brand marketing

What You’ll Be Working On

• Chipper Global Marketing is a Local/Global model, so you can engage with leaders driving growth in key markets, and work with the global team supporting our local markets
• Writing ad copy and conducting AB testing
• Scoping Ad creatives and working with the Design team to deliver new high quality assets
• Writing, launching, and analyzing micro surveys to Chipper users based on funnel analysis
• Supporting the GM team in research, reporting, and execution of marketing campaigns.