Software Engineering Intern - 2025 Summer
Preffect - San Francisco
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About the Role
As a Software Engineering Intern at Preffect, you’ll be working at the intersection of Health AI, real-time data processing, and scalable infrastructure, helping to build systems that power intelligent health insights. You’ll contribute to integrating health applications, designing scalable data pipelines, and optimizing real-time data ingestion to support AI-driven analytics.
Collaborating with our engineering and applied ML team, you’ll gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies for high-performance data processing and storage:
- Implement event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka, Redis Streams, or Celery for real-time data processing.
- Design and implement ETL pipelines to load, transform, and store structured and unstructured health data into PostgreSQL.
- Ensure data consistency, fault tolerance, and efficient querying across different health metrics.
- Improve system scalability using async processing, caching strategies, and parallel execution .
- Collaborate with ML and data teams to structure data for analytics, recommendations, and predictive modeling.
- Implement logging, monitoring, and performance optimization for data ingestion services.
Minimum Qualifications
✔️ Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related fields.
✔️ Experience in Python, Django/FastAPI for backend development.
✔️ Familiarity with RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and health data integration (Apple HealthKit, Google Fit, Fitbit).
✔️ Strong understanding of SQL & PostgreSQL for data storage and transformation.
✔️ Knowledge of real-time processing engines like Apache Kafka, Redis Streams, Celery, or RabbitMQ .
✔️Familiarity with Flink, Apache Beam, or other real-time data processing frameworks used for high-throughput, distributed data streaming and batch processing .
✔️ Experience with data pipelines, ETL, and database optimization techniques .
✔️ Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines for deployment.
If you are passionate about leveraging artificial intelligence to create transformational Health and Wellness products, we'd love to hear from you!
Apply now to join our mission-driven team at Preffect.