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Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2025)

extra holidays - extra parental leave - work from anywhere - fully flexible

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Internships

Experience:

Entry-level / graduate

Work from:

United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Currently pursuing BS or MS in Computer Science, Experience in software development, Strong problem-solving skills, Available for full-time summer internship.

Key responsabilities:

Collaborate to develop new features
Participate in rapid prototyping and feedback

Dropbox Large http://www.dropbox.com

1001 - 5000 Employees

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Job description

Please note: This role will remain open until January 10th, 2025.

Role Description

As a Software Engineering Intern, you'll work alongside seasoned professionals, diving deep into real-world challenges and pioneering solutions that impact millions. With a focus on the future of collaboration, you'll have the opportunity to work on high-impact projects that define the next chapter of Dropbox. In our Virtual First work culture, you’ll connect with with Dropboxers virtually and in-person to build the foundation of a strong professional network. As a Summer intern, you will also have the opportunity to attend our Emerging Talent Summit, where participants from our intern and early-career programs come together in person to build lasting relationships, explore learning and development opportunities, and prepare for their career journey ahead.

For Summer 2025, we offer two start dates culminating in a 12-week internship:

5/27 - 8/15
6/24 - 9/12

Responsibilities

Innovative Development: Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design, develop, and deploy next-gen features for Dropbox's suite of products.
Agile Learning: Immerse yourself in rapid prototyping, iterative development, and harness the power of structured feedback from your host team.
User-Centric Focus: Ensure solutions are designed with the end-user in mind, emphasizing usability and intuitive design.
Tech Exploration: Participate in tech talks, professional development workshops, to explore new technologies and tools.
Mentorship: Receive 1:1 mentorship and guidance from your team of dedicated industry experts and mentors, gain insights into the tech world, and establish valuable connections.

Teams and Projects

You play an active part in the team matching process. Prior to final round technical interviews, we’ll send you an in-depth survey to understand your interests and strengths. These criteria as well as current business needs and your location are all factors we consider to match you closely with a host team.

Here are some examples of the numerous types of roles and teams that you can have an impact on:

Product Engineering - Product Engineers thrive working across technologies and codebases, and are also involved in various product development cycle stages. Along the way they represent users needs through close partnership with product, design, and user research. In this role you will deliver best-in-breed software by building robust systems that power optimized user experiences on marquee projects like Dropbox Paper, Transfer, or Family.
New Initiatives - Dropbox is exploring 0→1 opportunities and building new products that will make a difference in the lives of Dropbox customers and employees! Ideally, you are at your best when you are in fast-paced and startup-like teams, building customer-facing products and having a deep curiosity which leads you to build side projects of your own.
Infrastructure Engineering - The Infrastructure Engineering team designs products for vast scale. We craft components for millions of connections, oversee billions of files, and manage hundreds of petabytes of data. Our rigorous approach addresses edge cases and errors. Through refined code and thorough testing, we prioritize data integrity and security.
Mobile Engineering - Our Mobile team builds products and features that drive the core experience on the Dropbox mobile application. We enable users to easily manage their content, collaborate with their peers and work effortlessly with others. This position will play a key role in building and supporting mobile features.

Requirements

Currently pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), graduating in no later then Spring 2027
Experience writing or shipping software as part of coursework, personal projects, internships, coding competitions or research
Passion for learning, solving problems, and challenging the status quo
Available for Summer 2025 full-time internship (40 hours per week / 12 weeks)