Backend Software Engineer Intern (Minimum 5-Month Commitment)

Company Description
ESGpedia is Asia's leading in ESG data and technology company, headquartered in Singapore. We offer a comprehensive suite of digital solutions on our one-stop platform to empower businesses of all sizes - from corporates and SMEs to the financial sector - to comply with ESG regulations and achieve ESG excellence.

The ESGpedia platform powers key initiatives across the Asia Pacific region, including the ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) Asia-Pacific Green Deal digital platform and the Asia-Pacific Single Accesspoint for ESG Data (SAFE) initiative. ESGpedia is GRI-licensed. Visit to find out more about us!

At ESGpedia, we believe people are our greatest asset. Unified by a common purpose of accelerating the world's transition towards a net zero economy, our team is built on mutual trust, respect, and support. We believe in hands-on learning and taking ownership of one's work - which means creating a spirited environment for all team members to take on exciting challenges, create meaningful impact for our planet, and grow both personally and professionally.

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Job Summary
We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer Intern to join our rapidly expanding Engineering team who is passionate about designing and building great user facing features. You will work in a cross disciplinary setting with both product owners and frontend engineers to enable our Enterprise clients to complete their functional workload on our ESG platform.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on backend engineer who has a strong background in Java and has worked with many types of RESTful APIs. You will have the opportunity to design and implement backend workflows with an API-first approach for the capital markets and ESG (green financing) sector. You should also have a strong background in web security. You can expect to work with many Cloud-based tools (AWS Cloud) and be open to learning new tools. You must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with little supervision in an Agile environment.
You will be a key contributor in transforming the way capital markets of today and green financing of tomorrow function with the web-based frontend applications you build together with internal stakeholders ranging from Customer Success to the Product team.

Job Responsibilities

Your core responsibilities:

1. Full software development lifecycle from translating requirements into technical specifications, implementing software code, checking in code for peer review and troubleshooting

2. Designing and implementing Java code for a modern cloud-based environment using Object Oriented Programming principles

3. Implement and interface with REST APIs with Java

4. Design and interface with relational databases such as MySQL and noSQL databases such as DynamoDB

Requirements

. Basic coding knowledge, in any language (Javascript, Java)

. Basic understanding of code version control systems such as Git

. Prior experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL)

. Strong understanding of work with AWS or other cloud providers (experience is a plus)

What you will need to thrive:

. Value teamwork above all.

. Natural curiosity to learn.

. Loves to work with code.

. Intrinsically motivated personality.

. High adaptability and strong problem-solving skills.

. Customer focused mindset.

. Self-starter who thrives on complexity and independence.

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