Software Engineer Internship

Company Description

Why choose an internship with Wellmark? We strive to offer meaningful work that assists in your professional development and provides value to the team. You will gain valuable experience within the health insurance industry and put the skills and knowledge you’ve acquired in school to practice this summer during our 2027 Summer Internship Program. You will have the opportunity to learn from subject matter experts and leaders within the industry, network with fellow internship program participants, and gain practical, hands-on work experience. 

If you’re eager to learn, collaborate with others, demonstrate your potential, develop customer-focused solutions, and grow into an exciting career, we hope you’ll consider an internship with us! 

Job Description

What’s the User Experience team in our Technology Division? At a time when technology is creating new business models, disrupting industries and creating valuable experiences for consumers, our role as technology team members must elevate an organization through innovative transformation, modernized technology and delivery of new business strategies, including an aim to continuously evolve and enhance the customer experience. The User Experience Team designs intuitive, accessible, and user-centered experiences that help customers achieve their goals efficiently. Through research, design, engineering, testing, and collaboration, the team ensures products are both functional and engaging.

What projects might I support? Although subject to change, examples of projects you will be contributing to include:

• Provide day to day experiences of collaboration and partnership with various leaders and team members; focus on small scale deliverables, building interpersonal relationships, exposure to cross divisional elements of the Wellmark organization  
• Assist with the management and troubleshooting of multiple applications in support of Wellmark's systems
• In collaboration with application operations, assist and work with Technology and business stakeholders to troubleshoot and provide production support to research and find root cause for systems errors
• Develop business knowledge of the application necessary to effectively provide support maintenance
• Participate in the development of complex UI artifacts used by multiple development teams
• Maintain documentation and code examples which describe usage and best practices
• Work closely with UX Designers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure user experience is integral part of creation process from start to finish
• Collaborate in a team environment with shared code; disciplined use of source code control and process documentation.