Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best.

P&C IT Services provides professional services to help our business units and corporate functions use technology to create, manage, and optimize information and business processes.  IT Services can include a wide range of activities such as: software development, data management, Cloud services, IT security, network security, technical support, establishing and overseeing access rights, procuring and maintaining equipment or software, managing the infrastructure, and defining security procedures,  The overall goal of IT Services is to provide technology solutions that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and give our company a competitive advantage over our competitors.

Great American’s culture is built on connection, shared learning, and strong relationships. This is a hybrid role that combines in-office and remote work. Employees are expected to maintain a meaningful on-site presence to support collaboration, relationship building, and business success.

The Great American Software Lab is seeking an Extreme Programming Engineer Intern for summer 2027.

Responsibilities:

The Extreme Programming (XP) Intern in the Great American Software Lab will work in a multi-language cloud native environment utilizing pair programming and TDD (Test Driven Development) in an accelerated learning environment. You will not have a more challenging and learning opportunity than this!                     

The ideal candidate is looking for a collaborative environment building distributed systems that enable enterprises to focus on their business rather than re-architecting a cloud platform from scratch. Pair programming has always been something that you wanted to try out and will accelerate your learning as you work with a seasoned developer. As cliché as it may sound, every day is completely different from the next. We have a general framework for what our day looks like and the majority of it will be spent with your pair. Our product teams are comprised of product owners, product managers, designers, and cloud native engineers.

Requirements:

Ability to work in the office at minimum three days a week.

Education:

• Pursuing a degree In Computer Science or related

• 2028 or 2029 graduation year

Experience/skills:

• Tech stack: C#, ASP.NET Core, Vue.js

• Ability to dive into a large polyglot codebase and contribute as you learn

• Being okay with the uncomfortable feeling that comes from learning new things

• Interest in exploring new programming paradigms, languages, and patterns

• Demonstrable ability to research problems and break them into discrete parts

• Have empathy with your pair and freely exchange feedback on a continual basis

• Comfortable with Test Driven Development (TDD) 

• Worked in or willing to work a pair programming environment
  

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Benefits:

We offer competitive benefits packages for full-time and part-time employees*. Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision coverage, wellness plans, parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. Full-time and eligible part-time employees also enjoy Paid Time Off and paid holidays, a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, and commuter benefits.

Compensation varies by role, level, and location and is influenced by skills, experience, and business needs. Your recruiter will provide details about benefits and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process. Learn more at http://www.gaig.com/careers.

*Excludes seasonal employees and interns.