Software Engineer Intern (Data Access)

Software Engineer Intern (Data Access)

New York

Replica is a privacy-centric urban data platform that delivers critical insights about the built environment. With better data, human-context, and an intuitive design, Replica helps public and private sectors make informed, effective, and responsive decisions.

Our platform models travel behavior over time to show how people across the country live, move, and work. This data is used by planners, scientists, analysts, and policymakers who are working to make our cities more sustainable, equitable, and resilient. We contextualize hard choices so that our clients understand the trade-offs surrounding their decisions. Whether for a city planner increasing public transit to underserved neighborhoods or for a grocery chain evaluating where to open a new location, Replica enables cities and businesses to make more informed, people-centered decisions.

We spun out of Alphabet in 2019 when we secured series A funding from venture firms such as Innovation Endeavors, Firebrand Ventures, and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Our series B round was led by Founders Fund in 2021. Today, we are a team of 40+ employees both working remotely and from our offices in New York, NY, Oakland, CA, and Kansas City. 

Our data is used to make decisions affecting the physical places where we work, study, and live. These places are complex and deeply human. This responsibility necessitates providing transparency, pursuing equity, and preserving privacy. We are committed to bringing together a diverse workforce and creating an environment of inclusion. We value our differences and we encourage all to apply. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Responsibilities

This is a full-stack software engineering internship role lasting 8-12 weeks during Summer or Fall 2024, with a majority of work focusing on front-end web application development. This role does not directly involve AI/ML work.

• Build user-facing web applications to access, visualize, and interact with complex urban data; enable customers to understand changes, evaluate solutions, and make predictions for residents.
• Design and build RESTful APIs which use spatial context to efficiently query and aggregate nationwide geospatial and temporal data.

• Understand the urban data science context to ensure that correct, consistent, and meaningful data is delivered to customers.

The Data Access Team

The Data Access team is made up of urbanist-minded engineers who are passionate about evolving our product to address critical economic, equity, and sustainability challenges. The team builds web application features and other tools to make Replica’s data accessible, discoverable, and meaningful for users. Team members are empowered to operate autonomously within a culture of iteration, mutual support, and learning.

This role will report to the Data Access Engineering Manager. You will work alongside full-stack engineers, together with customer services managers and our head of design. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Education: Active enrollment in Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience: One or more team-based projects incorporating full-stack engineering.
• Technical: Experience in web application development using React and SQL.

Bonus Qualifications

• Education: Active enrollment in Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Technical: Experience with additional areas of our tech stack which includes: TypeScript, Node, Mapbox, Python, Pandas, Postgres, BigQuery, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Data background: Experience in data visualization.
• Urban context: Academic or work experience in Urban Science or related disciplines.

What We Value

• We work in the service of others
• We understand that talent + diversity + curiosity + relentlessness wins
• We believe walking > talking
• We operate with thoughtful urgency
• We communicate openly and directly
• We build products people use

Benefits

• Our people! We work as a team and are excited to contribute to city planning. 
• Offices in New York, Oakland, and Kansas City.
• Flexible PTO.

Compensation

• Replica is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
• The hourly range for this position is $40.00 to $45.00 an hour. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to relevant q