2026 Summer Intern IT Software Engineer .NETWeb

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Join Nelnet as an intern and do real work that matters to our business. All Nelnet interns receive one-on-one mentorship competitive pay casual dress flexible schedule intern-specific programming and meaningful work experience.

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Hungry for relevant development experience while youre still in school Nelnet a Fortune 1000 finance & technology company is hiring eager students to join its Summer 2026 IT Internship program. Software Engineer Interns Software Engineer Interns will enhance and support our internal and external web-based applications. They will work with IT teams to develop and maintain applications C# SQL and Angular. Across all teams Nelnet interns enjoy competitive pay casual dress flexible work hours and receive mentorship from IT pros.

• General knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) computer information systems and Agile approach.
• Knowledge of computers: preferably Microsoft packages and advancement in programming language learning.

• Previous experience in creating and deploying software (e.g. internship class-based project personal project research opportunity non-profit work etc.)
• Experience solving complex problems and working through challenging requirements

• Motivated and excited by technical challenges
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Passionate about collaborating with teammates and customers
• Exceptional written verbal and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrates an eagerness to learn and enjoys helping others
• Shares new ideas is creative and passionate about innovation
• Detail oriented and cares about creating an exceptional user experience
• Comfortable working in an agile development environment and understands on time/within-budget principles.
• Experience with C# SQL and RESTful Web Services

The hourly pay range for this role is $21 - $25

This position requires work in support of the Companys contract with the United States Department of Education (ED). As such the United States Government requires that any applicant for this position must complete United States Government security clearance. Effective June 1 2018 ED has informed Nelnet that security clearance applications for foreign nationals are not being accepted or light of this direction from ED Nelnet will be unable to hire applicants without United States citizenship for such positions.

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