Application Engineer Intern

ABOUT THIS POSITION

Application Engineering Internship

We are looking for a dynamic, energetic intern who is eager to learn about Waystar and the healthcare payments industry. The ideal candidate will be looking to enhance their career and expand their skill set. This unique experience will provide insight into a dynamic ever-changing and evolving industry, coupled with the opportunity to join a great company like Waystar.

Working knowledge of C#, .Net, MS SQL Server, Javascript and/or any object-oriented design is a plus. But if you're missing one of those and you're eager to learn, we'll teach you what you need to know!

The Waystar Engineering Team is looking for an eager, engaged intern to do work on our Comms product, specifically around automating manual testing, API creation, and service development.

Areas for Internship: Comms - Automated Testing, API Creation, and Service Development

WHAT YOU'LL DO

General Intern Responsibilities

• Understand and live our values

• Attend meetings and professional development training

• Fulfill tasks set out by manager from your respective department

• Perform in-depth research and analysis as needed

• Adhere to deadlines

• Assist with reports and tasks as assigned

• Must be able to work 20-30 hours a week

• Complete final project and present project to manager, buddy, and others

Application Engineering Internship Responsibilities:

• Increase the efficiency of our engineering team by adding new and updating existing tests in our automated test suite using Selenium, removing the need for manual testing

• Using containers (Kubernetes), create a new Application Programming Interface (API) to allow other applications, both internally and externally, to more easily access and work with Comms data

• Create a new backend service to periodically review data in our Comms Alerts tables and send appropriate notification emails

• Convert our existing Realtime Service Tool to be web-based, using APIs and containers (Kubernetes).

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Requirements:

• Languages: C#, .Net, Javascript

• Database: MS SQL Server

• Deployment: Internal Deployment tools, Kubernetes, On-Perm, AWS

• Deployment Tools: Azure DevOps (ADO), JIRA

• 0-3 years' experience

• Basic understanding of programming concepts

• Can code in one or more general purpose programming languages; C# and .NET programming languages are preferred

• Experience with SQL

• Experience with infrastructure components such as servers, networking, load balancers, and MQ preferred

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work in a very fast-paced environment & welcome change

• Highly self-motivated

• Ability to work both in team and solo environments

As a Waystar engineer, its likely you'll touch them all. We're always evolving too, so maybe you'll help us add a new one to the list!

Additional Requirements:

• 2nd Semester Junior or Senior

• 3.2 or above GPA

• Actively involved on campus and/or community

• Majors/Minors: Open

• Interest in healthcare and/or technology

• Curiosity to go deeper into the projects given

• Ability to adapt and pivot with competing priorities and/or deadlines

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc.)

ABOUT WAYSTAR

Through a smart platform and better experience, Waystar helps providers simplify healthcare payments and yield powerful results throughout the complete revenue cycle.

Waystar's healthcare payments platform combines innovative, cloud-based technology, robust data, and unparalleled client support to streamline workflows and improve financials so providers can focus on what matters most: their patients and communities. Waystar is trusted by 1M+ providers, 1K+ hospitals and health systems, and is connected to over 5K commercial and Medicaid/Medicare payers. We are deeply committed to living out our organizational values: honesty; kindness; passion; curiosity; fanatical focus; best work, always; making it happen; and joyful, optimistic & fun.

Waystar products have won multiple Best in KLAS® or Category Leader awards since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book surveys since 2012. The Waystar platform supports more than 500,000 providers, 1,000 health systems and hospitals, and 5,000 payers and health plans. For more information, visit ~~~ or follow @Waystar (~~~) on Twitter.

WAYSTAR PERKS

• Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)

• Customizable benefits package (3 medical plans with Health Saving Account company match)

• Generous paid time off starting at 3 weeks + 13 paid holidays including 2 personal floating holidays

• Paid parental leave (including maternity + paternity leave)

• Education assistance opportunities and free LinkedIn Learning access

• Free mental health and family planning programs, including adoption assistance and fertility support

• 401(K) program with company match

• Pet insurance

• Employee resource groups

Waystar is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate, value, and support diversity and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Job Category: Technology/Engineering

Job Type: Part time

Req ID: R1996