Make an Impact
Come build your portfolio and professional network as a Vertafore intern!
As a product development member embedded in an agile team of Software Developers and QA Engineers, you will create software products utilizing state of the art technologies. Take advantage of the opportunity to unleash your passion for software by contributing to real production code. With your team, you’ll celebrate all the hard work that goes into a successful release to market while gaining first-hand experience in cutting edge, lean-agile, software development methodologies.
Additionally, you will be exposed to multiple roles and disciplines as well as work on what interests you. Here, you will grow your development skills in areas, such as web applications, object-oriented programming, service-oriented architecture, database, analytics and testing frameworks. Finally, all interns receive coaching and mentoring from our experienced professionals.
Available Intern Opportunities:
Qualifications desired for SW Development Interns
Be pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field
Possess good oral and written communication skills
Quickly pick up and apply new technologies and be proactive about learning
Contribute to a positive team environment
Have a passion for technology and evidence of innovative or significant projects in or outside of class
Intern Success Stories
Meet former Vertafore interns turned full-time employees
Peter Luangrath, 2012 Software Intern,
Development with Connectivity group, Bothell, WA.
Now a Software Engineer in Test for TransactNow Development
The opportunity to intern at Vertafore provided me with a great foundation for self-growth as well as a wonderful introduction to the software industry. During my time at the company, I was assigned to a team that worked on FinancePro, a web-based service that streamlines the processes of premium finance options for insurance purchases.
As a software QA team member, my responsibilities included implementing a testing platform and writing/maintaining user interface tests. I was able to implement an automated user interface testing platform from the ground up using a testing framework called WatiN (Web Application Testing In .NET). This framework helped us write tests that could exercise user workflows in order to continually test the system without having to allocate man hours. I was given responsibilities within my calculated means so I was never in a position to fail. Meanwhile these tasks were still of relevance to the product and our efforts to develop/maintain it. In order words, my efforts held significance.
What attributed most to my enjoyable experience at Vertafore was the support that I received. Everyone was willing and happy to help. The team-centric atmosphere is invigorating yet, without a doubt, the main reason I accepted the internship was because of the amazing reviews about my manager—an uncontestably, rational and strong leader who helped guide the beginning of my career into a golden age. The vast knowledge and sheer strength of his keen and cunning mind welcomed me into a new realm. #AwesomeManager 
Evan Harris, 2012 Intern,
Development with Agency Group, Bothell, WA.
Now a Software Engineer for AMS360 Development
My internship at Vertafore gave me the opportunity to join a real development team and take on any task that I felt ready to oversee. I worked with Business Intelligence software that provides customers with a web-based reporting tool, which offers information to invoke proper business decisions.
As an intern, I was even given room to take on tasks that weren’t part of my core knowledge base just for the chance to learn. Some of the work I completed as an intern included database scripting and data modeling that involves creating a new database schema populated by data from a different database. I also worked on front end web design to provide customers with a better experience while using the product.
There is no separation between work that an intern or a full-time team member can tackle. Being an intern at Vertafore allowed me to learn at my own pace while accomplishing as much as I could. Of course, having a full-time job at Vertafore as a result of the internship isn’t bad either.
Eric Dostie, Intern,
Software Development Intern with PLM Group, East Lansing, MI.
Now an Associate Software Engineer for East Lansing Development
During my time as an intern at Vertafore, I worked on the Sircon for States software in a production environment with an agile development team in East Lansing. I worked on front-end web design and development as well as back-end application logic. I also had the opportunity to take on larger initiatives to update the Sircon for States application to meet modern software security standards.
You don't feel like "just an intern" at Vertafore. I was given tasks and features to complete as if I were a full-time software engineer. This pushed me to learn new things and explore concepts I did not have experience working with before. The skills and experience I gained during my internship allowed me to be especially successful upon my return to the company. Most importantly, the people and the culture at Vertafore directly contributed to my decision to return to Vertafore after completing my education at Michigan State.