Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week

Shape your future with a dynamic internship experience at New York Life. We offer opportunities across a variety of exciting businesses, including Actuarial, AI & Data, Finance, Investments, Technology, Underwriting, and more. Your internship journey is designed to challenge you through hands-on work experience that will equip you with valuable skills you can use anywhere. You will build your network through collaboration and connection with talented interns and experienced employees through team-building activities, mentorship programs, and fun social events. By the end of your internship, you'll be equipped with new skills and a network that will propel you forward in your career journey.

Role Overview:

Technology Summer Interns join us for 11 weeks. You will have an opportunity to explore potential career paths while working on real-life projects across our technology organization and gain the valuable experience essential for you to take the next step in starting your career. Our world is full of opportunities to collaborate, imagine, invent, and evolve transformative technology.

You’ll also expand your skills through hands-on training and development opportunities – all designed to prepare you for a successful career after graduation.

Here, you’ll be part of a strong network and learn alongside a group of highly motivated peers just like yourself. It’s a collaborative environment full of learning opportunities designed to help you evolve your skills, challenge your strengths, and reach your full potential. You’ll also build mentoring relationships, have access to senior leadership, and gain exposure across the company.

Beside working with your team, you will also interact with the other Technology Interns while working on a real project. You will engage in the company’s Volunteer for Good activities to give back to the community in which we live.

What You’ll Do:

Technology Engineering interns can enter one of three pathways: Developer, Infrastructure or Modern Workplace Engineer.

Role: Developer Engineer

Description:

Design, develop, test and maintain high-quality software to meet business needs using a range of front-end and back-end technologies and stacks
Design, develop, and operationalize cloud-native applications using Agile and DevSecOps methodologies and frameworks
Work within the Value Stream to design and build applications in a hybrid environment encompassing on-prem solutions and cloud hosted applications and platforms
Responsible for the development, configuration, enhancement and support of applications using modern programming languages to be deployed on cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
Support the design and deployment of secure, well-tested, scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems
Support the evaluation of key attributes of existing application architectures, evolution and enhancements to the infrastructure, product ideation and technology stack selection
Write clean, well-tested & secure code; exhibit ownership from requirements to development
Understand existing architecture on the back end as well as the front-end side to be able to enhance and improve architecture going forward with a key focus on scalability and quality
Understand requirements around user experience to be able to deliver high quality, cross-platform optimized and responsive web front-end experience
Work with designers, engineers, product management and business stakeholders
Learn new technologies as needed and apply them to business solutions. Stay abreast of new/upcoming technologies in the market
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand functional and non-functional requirements
Participate in scope of work estimation and forecasting
Adhere to architecture, design, implementation, and security standards and best practices
Participate in code reviews or use collaborative programming techniques to promote high quality business outcomes
Proactive ownership, troubleshooting & resolution of issues as they arise
Challenge the status quo and propose newer and better ways of doing things

Role: Infrastructure Engineer

Description:

Assist in the development, building, and support of moderately complex systems, applications, and solutions that integrate across the enterprise and may have system-wide impact
Apply knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures to assignments where problems and solutions may be unclear, but there are known factors and some predictability
Work on multiple cross-functional initiatives, systems, applications, teams, and products
Contribute individually, seeking guidance from supervisor/manager as needed
Help develop and evaluate technical requirements relevant to the respective domain and applicable systems
Assist in designing and developing system specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility
Identify requirements gaps or issues
Help determine the impact of requirements on existing architecture, processes, and systems
Assist in reviewing and analyzing migrations between systems in physical design and requirements

Role: Modern Workplace Engineer

Description:

Assist in setting up and configuring end-user focused tools, including endpoint management, monitoring, software delivery, build automation, MDM, virtual, collaboration, and messaging platforms
Contribute to defining a product vision, strategy, and roadmap
Support the building, configuring, and maintaining of all EUC platforms, policies, services, and devices
Monitor performance and assist in managing capacity across all EUC platforms, policies, services, and devices
Provide guidance to business and support teams on the appropriate usage and support of EUC platforms, services, and devices
Assist in providing material support to ASM and Application Owners to ensure platforms are designed with their needs in mind
Apply principles, practices, and procedures to complete moderately complex assignments where problems and solutions have known factors and predictability
Work on multiple cross-functional initiatives, systems, applications, teams, and products
Assist in developing and evaluating technical requirements relevant to their domain and applicable systems
Help design and develop system specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility
Identify requirements gaps or issues
Help determine the impact of requirements on existing architecture, work processes, and systems
Communicate and explain to non-technical staff how proposed solutions will support their requirements
Assist in reviewing and analyzing migrations between systems in physical design and requirements
Collaborate on technically or functionally aligned resources as required to deliver work.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of platform offerings, including functional, technical, and user enhancements

What You’ll Bring:

An innovative mindset and the ability to challenge the status quo while exhibiting excellent problem-solving, communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.

Required Skills:

You must be a rising senior or graduate student studying towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Software Engineering or other related technical majors.
Superior technical skills, including a strong understanding of Linux /Unix and Windows, competency in at least one programming language (e.g., C, C++, Java or C#)
Experience in object-oriented development, good comprehension of data structures, algorithms and complexity theory, strong database and scripting skills.

Preferred Skills:

You have a minimum GPA of 3.2.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and interviews will begin mid-September

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $30-35/ hour

Overtime eligible: Nonexempt

Discretionary bonus eligible: No

Sales bonus eligible: No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for full-time employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Our Diversity Promise

We believe in a diverse workforce because it is our mission to advocate for the financial security and success of people in every community. This is why diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are guiding principles that are embedded in our brand and our culture. Click here to learn more about how we have been recognized for our leadership.

Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.

Job Requisition ID: 90591

About NY Life Insurance Company

Diversity & Humanity–two values that are deeply rooted in the New York Life culture and have laid the foundation for over 175 years of commitment to our employees, agents, policy owners, and the communities where we live and work. At New York Life you become a valued part of a welcoming, inclusive, and caring culture that has a long-standing legacy in stability and growth. The strength of New York Life revolves around our diversified, multi-dimensional business portfolio that goes beyond life insurance, and we want you to be a part of our legacy.

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide an environment where you can explore your career ambitions, offering opportunities to tackle meaningful challenges and stretch your skills while balancing work and life priorities. You will be part of a diverse team guided by our belief to always be there for each other–providing the support and flexibility to grow and reach new heights while making an impact in the lives of others.

You are our future, and we commit to investing in you accordingly.

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Nearest Secondary Market: New York City

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