Software Engineering Apprenticeship, Summer 2026
Gusto
internship
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $4,808 per hour
Job Level
About the role
- Learn by doing: pair daily with engineers to design, code, test, and ship features safely and incrementally.
- Explain your thinking: talk through tradeoffs, ask clarifying questions, and make your reasoning visible in daily conversations.
- Practice feedback as a skill: give and receive actionable feedback, and iterate quickly with your mentor and teammates.
- Build breadth and depth: rotate pairing partners and tasks to expand your toolkit across frontend, backend, and tests.
- Grow your independence: progress from observer to driver to navigator with support, celebrating steady, compounding wins.
- Share outcomes: demo your work and reflect on what you learned as you move toward L1 readiness.
Requirements
- Creative thinkers who can frame a problem, test an approach, and explain their reasoning clearly.
- Curiosity and humility — you seek feedback, change your mind with new evidence, and keep going when it’s hard.
- Strong communication in a collaborative, pair‑heavy environment; you make teammates better.
- Evidence of learning and making — of any kind: you create things and can show your process.
- Comfort with the basics in at least one programming language and eagerness to learn the rest on the job.
- No specific degree or prior professional SWE experience is required.
Benefits
- Paid Software Engineering Apprenticeship
- Hands-on mentorship and support
- Opportunity to build real products
- Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
programming languagefrontend developmentbackend developmenttesting
Soft Skills
creative thinkingcuriosityhumilitystrong communicationcollaborationfeedbackproblem framingreasoning