SWIFT Hiring For 2024 Summer Internships, Northern Virginia, Hybrid, multiple openings at Manassas, VA Full Time

About the Role

Are you interested in gaining real-world, hands on, project-based experience in Summer 2024? Are you seeking a chance to explore the business world?

You will be part of Swift’s 10-week internship. During your internship, you will work alongside a mentor and with a team who can help you develop your business sense.

Swift is redefining cross-border transactions, making them faster and more transparent than ever before. We are the way the world moves value — every instant of every day, in almost every country. Over 11,000 banks in more than 200 countries trust us 24/7 and 365 days a year. We’re trusted every instant.

At this time, Swift is not able to offer relocation or housing to interns.

Program Highlights:

• Robust, real-world projects
• Professional Development and Networking Opportunities
• Ten Week program, June 3rd — August 9th 
• Hourly rate: $32/Hour
• Positions are open in Manassas, Culpeper and Tysons.  All positions are hybrid, 2 days per week in the office

Qualifications:

• Must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship,
• Be a rising junior or senior

Major: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant discipline

2023-12514 Software Development Intern – Microservices, Hybrid

Hiring Manager:          Sanjay Mishra                         Division:  Product

Location:                     Manassas

As a Software Development Intern specializing in Microservices, you will work closely with our experienced development team to design, implement, test, and deploy microservices-based applications. You will have the opportunity to learn and apply best practices for building scalable and resilient microservices architectures, as well as gaining exposure to the latest tools and technologies in the field.

Responsibilities

Microservices Development:

• Collaborate with the development team to design and implement microservices-based solutions.
• Contribute to the development of scalable and resilient microservices architectures.

Coding and Testing:

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Conduct unit testing and participate in code reviews to ensure high code quality.

Documentation:

• Document code and system functionalities for future reference.
• Contribute to the development of technical documentation related to microservices architecture.

Collaboration:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management and quality assurance, to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Participate in team meetings and brainstorming sessions to contribute ideas and insights.

Learning and Development:

• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies related to microservices.
• Actively seek opportunities for professional growth and skill development.

Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Java, Python, or C++.
• Understanding of microservices architecture principles and best practices.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of RESTful API design and implementation.
• Exposure to version control systems (Git).
• Understanding of agile development methodologies.

As part of internship, person will work with FIN messaging team to implement Linux containers to run FIN Process/application and writing Restful API for connect VMware vcenter. At the end of internship, student will present work to management about development and achievements.

2023-12519 User Experience Designer Intern, Hybrid

Hiring Manager:          Tsvetomir Vassilev                 Division:  Product

Location:                     Manassas or Tysons

Major: Computer Science or Computer Programming, Information Technology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI/HCD), Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Psychology, or Cognitive Science

Job Description:

Are you fascinated with how human behavior intersects with digital environments? Do you have a keen eye for designing complex graphical user interfaces? We are looking for you! Swift’s global User Experience team is in search of an eager, curious, people-oriented student with an interest in creating intuitive, aesthetic experiences for all.  

The US-based UX team is energetic, innovative, and values making impact. You can expect to make a significant contribution to how we work through a comprehensive experience that includes all facets of the design thinking process. You will also have front-row access to the design-to-development process for a premier Swift product.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead user research, prototyping, testing, and implementation of a web experience for internal stakeholders (that you will showcase at the end of the summer)
• Support a user research campaign focused on improving efficiencies within the agile framework
• Practice advocating for Design Thinking within the product development process

• You will be asked to perform subtasks such as data pre-processing and hyperparameter tuning, which are an integral part of data science and will contribute to your overall understanding of the domain and the industry.

At the end of this 10-week internship, you should be able to present your analysis and findings to larger Swift audiences.

2023-12468 Swiftnet Automation Intern,  Hybrid

Hiring Manager:          Jordan Gold                Division:  Product

Location:                     Manassas

Job Description:

Are you a student who is passionate about learning the latest technologies? We are searching for motivated individuals who will work together in a small group dedicated to developing delivery pipelines. You will be tasked with expanding and enhancing the current automation framework, in addition to creating new automation scenarios. You will have the opportunity to work in an agile environment to deliver mission critical applications using technologies such as PKI, Directory, databases, and RPCs. This group will support the Swift core messaging application teams.

Some of the technologies that you will learn and work with include:

• Cloudbees and Jenkins test & deployment pipelines using Groovy and Ansible
• Python application invoking Atlassian JIRA Xray APIs
• Open-source testing frameworks such as Cucumber and Robot Framework integrated with Selenium WebDriver
• Containers (Docker + Podman)
• Wide array of programming languages including JAVA, C++, and scripting languages
• You will be working on a project related to one of the technologies listed above and will have to present on the improvement done to the team.  

Your day to day activities include:

• Development in any of the above technologies
• Assisting teams within the department to achieve higher test automation rates with their qualification infrastructure
• Attending Agile ceremonies

2023-12551 Java Engineer Intern, Hybrid

Hiring Manager:          Manoranjan Panda                 Division:  Product

Location:                     Manassas

Job Description:

We offer a financial messaging service with an impressive availability target of 5 9s.  The core of that messaging service resides in providing a secure, reliable, and scalable network for the smooth movement of financial messages.

These financial messages and associated binary data are stored in Oracle DB.  This project will include developing extended capabilities to this messaging service to be able to handle customer issues and data-based problems.

You’ll work with:

• Internals of a World-Class financial messaging service,
• Mission-critical operations handling for large scale system
• Software engineering concepts used to build a system supporting the world’s finance uninterruptedly, 7 days a week, 24/7.
• Designing backend gRPC service
• Developing capabilities in Java/C++ to support a large scale system
• Developing test suites to ensure that developed capabilities are working correctly and are built with a high level of quality

Skills required:

• Passion for learning and developing creative, well-engineered applications
• Strong analytical, communications, and organizational skills
• Familiarity in working with relational databases
• Experience with Java/C++ with some GUI experience
• Experience or interest in learning to build APIs using gRPC

2023-12552 Software Engineer C++ Intern

Hiring Manager:          Manoranjan Panda                 Division:  Product

Location:                     Manassas

Job Description:

We offer a financial messaging service with an impressive availability target of 5 9s.  The core of that messaging service resides in providing a secure, reliable, and scalable network for the smooth movement of financial messages.

These message service platforms have evolved through last several years.  Several other new services, running on various platforms, are now integrated with the core messaging, requiring a need for systems to use platform-independent and language-agnostic communication across the various platforms. The project will involve migrating some of the platforms to use Google protobuf to allow the systems to be platform independent and integrate it with critical services while keeping the core business logic intact.

You’ll work with:

• Internals of a World-Class financial messaging service
• Mission-critical operations handling for a large scale system
• Software engineering concepts used to build a system supporting the world’s finance uninterruptedly, 7 days a week, 24/7
• Developing using a powerful tool, Google’s protobuf
• Structured data communication between different system
• Developing capabilities in Java/C++ to support a large scale system
• Developing test suites to ensure that developed capabilities are working correctly and are built with a high-level of quality

Skills required :

• Passion for learning and developing creative, well-engineered applications
• Strong analytical, communications, and organizational skills
• Familiarity with Google’s protobuf
• Experience with Java/C++
• Experience or interest in learning new technologies

2023-12553 Artificial Intelligence Intern, Hybrid

Hiring Manager:          Preeti Parmar              Division:  Product

Location:                     Manassas

Project Statement: Many developers face challenges in writing efficient, bug-free, and optimized code. They often spend a lot of time searching for code examples, debugging, and optimizing their code. This project aims to create a proof of concept for an AI-powered code suggester integrated into code editors to provide real-time assistance.

The role of AI in coding and software development is rapidly expanding. These AI-powered code generators are blazing the trail by providing powerful, intelligent, and intuitive tools to both seasoned developers and newcomers alike. They not only speed up the process of writing code but also make it more accessible to a broader audience, expanding the capabilities of individuals and organizations.

We have multiple applications that use wide variety of technologies some of which include C++, gRPC, SQL, JAVA, Springboot, Angular. As part of feasibility project, you will be part of the team to evaluate some of the following AI based tools that claim to improve programming experience.

• GitHub Copilot
• Replit GhostWriter
• Amazon Code Whisperer
• Cody by Sourcegraph
• Tabnine

Assignment: As part of this project, you will:

• Review code of some of the existing applications and identify code snippets to be enhanced with the tools mentioned above
• Use appropriate AI tools to generate code for the identified areas
• Review, validate and benchmark the code generated via the AI tools
• Calibrate performance of the new generated code
• Review Automatic bug detection and fixing
• Use the AI tools to generate code comments and documentation for functions, classes, and variables, ensuring that the codebase is well-documented
• Leverage AI tools to automatically generate test cases for the code. Verify that the generated test cases cover critical code paths and edge cases

2023-12473 ServiceNow Engineer Intern, Hybrid

Hiring Manager:          Michael Baker             Division:  Product

Location:                     Manassas

Based in Manassas, VA, you will be part of Swift’s 10-week internship as a ServiceNow Engineer Intern.  The ServiceNow team is an autonomous cross-functional team that has complete end to end control from the design phase to the roll-out of the product and everything in between.

Job Description:

Our ServiceNow team is looking for a highly motivated and passionate Intern to join us and help boost our development and accelerate our deliver flow. As an added benefit, you will have a unique opportunity to expand your knowledge and network by being exposed to the Global financial community within SWIFT.

• Work closely with the team to learn and grow your skills in the areas of Agile development, problem solving, communication, and teamwork
• Participate in requirement analysis for development of new features, components, and enhancements to existing components working directly with customers
• Participate in development, code review, testing, and deployment activities

Project Description:

IT Operations Management Single Pane, a project in the ServiceNow Engineering Team, where interns are tasked with working alongside Senior ServiceNow Engineers to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to propose, develop, and implement solutions. The end goal is helping Swift attain the state of desired maturity and readiness needed for Single Pane to attain proactive issue prevention, self-healing capabilities, and actionable alert handling through use of predicative intelligence and automation within ServiceNow. At the end of the project, interns will present a proposal to the ServiceNow Engineering Team who will evaluate.

2023-12640  GPI Quality Assurance Intern, Hybrid

Hiring Manager:          Anurag Saxena                       Division:  Product

Location:                     Manassas

Project Description:

OASIS Dashboards & Analytics:

• Build dashboards (API response time, usage patterns, version usage, performance of Batch Logger, overall view of all components, view on errors/events) for GPI Tracker & related applications
• Build dashboards (view on errors/events) for GPI GUI
• Build dashboards (API usage across multiple domains, statistics on Data Providers, view on errors/events, API response time) for PreValidation

Test Automation:

• Explore usage of Postman to generate & validate GPI Tracker APIs
• Extend creation of new test scenarios based on the Customer usage/patterns extracted from OASIS

Benchmarks:

• Extend the benchmark framework to generate configuration based traffic for GPI Tracker
• Create a framework (e.g. JMeter) to benchmark PreVal performance

GPI Diag:

• GPI diag is a tool to support operations with database related queries. Extend the tool to handle new features
• Make the interface more usable & customer friendly

2023-12559 DevOps Engineer Intern, Hybrid

Hiring Manager:          Sudha Dhulipalla        Division:  Tech Platforms

Location:                     Manassas

Based in Manassas, VA, you will be part of Swift’s 10-week internship as a Dev Ops Engineer Intern.  Our team/squad is setup in an Agile DevOps model. As a part of Oracle squad, we provide database solutions to our application teams. Our team engages in the product evolution, covering software architecture, development, quality assurance, security, operations, and IT infrastructure aspects.

Qualifications:

• Must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship
• Be a rising junior or senior
• Knowledge of web development, Anisble playbooks, Python/any scripting languages and sql commands.
• Basic understanding of Linux Operating Systems with familiarity with shell commands. 
• Knowledge of using JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket is an add on.

Job Description:

To enable “Patching as a service” at Swift to support application teams, we will have a new Portal created to schedule patching the database servers as per the needs of the service teams.

Are you a student passionate about learning new things, we are equally excited to have an intern joining us this Summer to help us out to design & create a new Web Portal. You will be working closely under the guidance of senior engineers within the squad.   As a part of the internship, you will learn CI/CD pipeline as well as gain knowledge in creating Ansible playbooks. You will also participate as a POC to analyze and develop new features as a part our solutions.

You’ll be:

• Learning and understanding the oracle database deployment process and CI/CD pipeline.
• Creating a scheduler & integrate with playbooks in Ansible to enable automating patching services
• Developing script (preferable in Python) for automation and data visualization. Document the automation process.
• Understanding agile methodologies and participate in sprint ceremonies.

Project Description:

• In this project you will be involved in designing & implementing a new web portal with a scheduler option to support to enable the customers to schedule the patching.
• This internship offers practical work experience and an introduction to creating a web-based service integrating with automation via Ansible. This internship will involve challenging opportunities, real world projects, and regular interaction with staff. It’s a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the web development and automation field with a great engineering team.
• This portal will display the details of each host per application service in various environments with Hostname, application name, pluggable instance names, container instance name, RedHat OS version, Oracle Server version, Database platform version, Next planned patching date.

2023-12491 Systems & Application Support Intern, Hybrid (5 positions)

Hiring Managers:         Jose Canino, Stella Yuan and Kiran Tumma  

Division:                      Tech Platforms

Location:                     Culpeper

About the team and assignment:

Are you a student passionate about learning new things?  Do you enjoy looking at a problem and figuring out a solution?

You will spend 10 weeks in our CMC Operations team where we are responsible for managing all production services and applications. You will also be exposed to new technologies, use new tools and instruments as part of your project assignment which involve automating manual/toil tasks using scripting language and data analytics tools. Continuous learning and development are key to growth and success of any team member, and we are fully committed to ensuring maximum exposure as part of this intern assignment.

2023-12499 API Platform Intern, Hybrid

Hiring Manager:          Rawan Alsabe                         Division:  Product

Location:                     Tysons

Based in Tysons, VA, you will be part of Swift’s 10-week internship as an API Platform Intern.  Our team enables cross border transactions through APIs, we manage Swift’s API platforms. The roles and responsibilities include development, testing, and operations. If you are interested in learning the API lifecycle management and governance, in addition to the technical skills needed for development and test automation on API Platforms, come and join us!

Job Description:

• Understand Open API Standards, and implement Open API Specification (swagger spec).
• Build API solutions to empower the API platform products.
• Development work involves all or some of the following: Java, JavaScript, Python, UI design and development using frameworks like ElectronJs for example.
• Be part of an agile team, following agile methodology best practices.

Project Description:

• Develop a desktop application as API client with a user interface.
• Implement authentication and authorization for the API client.
• The API client provides the ability to demonstrate actual business API flows and use cases by requesting the appropriate APIs and reflect that on a Graphical User Interface.

• At the end of the summer, you will present on the technologies and activities listed above.

2023-12489 Testing Intern, Hybrid

Hiring Manager:          MohanKishore Buddhiraju      Division:  Product

Location:                     Tysons

Based in Tysons, VA, you will be part of Swift’s 10-week internship as a Testing intern.  The QA Engineering teams are spread across all the 13-member Agile Team Squads.  The Intern will be joining them in the QA Engineering Chapter and will work on Automation as required by any Squad.

Job Description:

Are you passionate about testing, test automation and delivery pipelines?

Your responsibilities will be to:

• Develop and maintain test specifications/test cases/ sets of regression tests, for new hardware component/software release of applications in an accurate and timely manner.
• Automate new and existing test scripts using Python, and Robot framework.
• Automate the Build pipeline with CDRO.
• Analyze technical and functional requirements and translate them into software solutions.
• Understand dependencies toward other systems
• Prepare installation and operating procedures.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation.
• Supporting the delivered software and being part of a ‘Center of Expertise’ problem solving team.

You will be learning the following technical skills and their implementations

• Selenium
• Robot Framework
• BDD framework
• Python
• Java
• CICD Pipeline
• Cloud Bees
• KPI Technology (Key-Pair Infrastructure)
• Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins
• UNIX operating system and shell scripting language(s)
• Scrum methodology

Project Description:

At the end of the project work, the Intern will showcase and demo the functional Automation tests completed and the contribution to the Squad success, aligning to the Tribe Objectives and Key Results and Key Performance Indicators. 

What we offer

We put you in control of career

We give you a competitive package

We help you perform at your best

We help you make a difference

We give you the freedom to be yourself

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

If you believe you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us to request accommodation.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.