Engineering Intern

Babyscripts is looking for a Software Engineer that will help continue to evolve our patient-facing mobile application’s functionality and architecture, as well as the web application used by health care teams to manage, educate, and monitor their patients during pregnancy. You will help plan, design, and develop the features for one of our four product offerings

About Babyscripts

Babyscripts is a maternal digital health organization with the goal of Better Pregnancies for All. We provide a suite of products aimed at increasing access to care and improving outcomes. Our products aid in understanding and assessing risk early in the pregnancy to provide the patient and care team with the information that they need for the best care possible.

The base of the Babyscripts solution is myJourney, a mobile app with thousands of pieces of clinically-validated content, delivered at the right time in the mom’s pregnancy journey. Built onto myJourney are modules tailored to a patient’s risk level to provide the best-fit support for that patient, while providing care providers with greater insight into the patient’s health and wellbeing. Most notably, these modules include remote patient monitoring for blood pressure to detect and address risk for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, one of the leading causes of maternal mortality.

Key Responsibilities

This candidate will report to the Director of Engineering. Key responsibilities fall under the following domains: 

• Be part of a multidisciplinary product team
• Contribute hands-on development for tickets assigned to you, with an initial focus on back-end processes, technical debt, and quality assurance
• Collaborate with senior engineers on strategic projects such as the Postgres database migration or developing E2E test automation
• Work to identify and implement ways to improve how Babyscripts writes, builds, and delivers application code

Required Experience

• Current enrollment in undergraduate or graduate degree program with expected graduation in spring 2026, preferably an engineering (software engineering), business, computer science, or STEM/technical discipline
• A strong interest in back-end processes, database technologies, and tackling technical debt is highly desirable
• A passion for improving the status quo of maternal healthcare
• Willingness to try new things and jump in to learn quickly on the job; flexible personality
• Authorization to work in the US is required

Helpful, but not Required Experience

• Experience working in a start-up environment
• Experience and/or passion for healthcare, public health, digital health, and/or innovation
• Experience with Typescript and/or Flutter
• Experience with a Cloud Provider, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with Agile or Kanban project management styles

Internship Program Description

• Babyscripts will have ~2 interns this summer across our various departments
• In addition to working with an intern’s assigned department, we’ll also have internship programming throughout the summer to enhance interns’ experience and sense of community. We want all interns to get to know the company, leadership team, and founder, and to get exposure to a wide range of perspectives on what it’s like to work at a start-up! Potential programming may include:
  • Onboarding to Babyscripts 101 and introduction to each department
  • Meeting with the company founder to understand their path to founding a start-up and to hear their reflections on digital health innovation, career advice for students, etc.
  • Meetings with department heads to understand their path to Babyscripts and to get exposure to different departments across the company
  • Weekly meetings with other interns and the internship program coordinator for social purposes, and to check in on how things are going, etc.
  • Final presentation for full company at end of summer
  • Attendance at Company All Hands meetings and other cross-company events (lunch speakers, cross-department work showcases)
• Opportunity to secure a full-time, post-graduation offer, based on performance

Logistics & Compensation

• Strong preference for students graduating in spring 2027; this position is open to both graduate and undergraduate students.
• The candidate must be able to successfully work remotely. The candidate must have experience designing and establishing a productive, efficient, and balanced WFH routine so as not to detrimentally affect either professional outcomes or personal life.
• The desired internship length is 12 weeks, full-time. Internships may occur at any time during the summer (mid-May through mid-September, we are happy to work with students to find the best schedule that works for them (e.g., happy to accommodate academic schedules, summer travel, etc.)
• $3,000 stipend for 12 weeks (5 days total paid time off allowed, any additional time off will be unpaid) 
  • Part-time or fewer # of weeks is an option as well, for prorated stipend
• No travel is expected for this internship.
• Interns will be expected to use their own personal laptops and cell phones for this internship.
• Cover letter & resume required to apply. Please submit via the job posting on Bamboo.