Software Engineer Intern (Hong Kong based) (2025 In-take)

Role Summary

Bowtie’s mission is to make insurance good again and our vision is to build a category-defining health insurance company.

As a young and fast-growing company, grooming and learning from the next generation is always our priority. We are looking for interns to join us throughout the year - as a Bowtie intern, you will be treated and work like the rest of the team (no fetching coffee duties), and gain experience in substantive marketing or growth projects.

We also offer return offers for high achievers who share our values!

About the Role

You will be working closely with us to gain some hands-on experience and deliver some projects/campaigns to pave way for your career in software engineer development.

Your projects can range from developing claims systems, improving our underwriting engine, to any other tools that make our teams' life easier and more efficient. In case you are wondering how we are doing so far, here is coverage on our first-of-its-kind online underwriting engine.

You may find more about our application and interview process on our Q & A page

Key Responsibilities:

• You will be working side-by-side with engineers who have years of experience in software engineering and be empowered to drive and develop projects under their guidance.
• Backend track
  • Develop and maintain the core system for insurance operations. You utilize and design data models, and craft according to business needs, scheduled tasks, new API endpoints, or 3rd party integrations.
  • Develop and enhance data dashboards for management and other business units.
• Frontend track
  • Craft new features for our internal admin portal to cater to various customer requests and day to day insurance operations
  • Optimize Bowtie Digital Insurance Platform (app.bowtie.com.hk) for better user experience
• Full-stack track
  • A mix of the above two tracks.
  • In fact, most of our interns choose the full stack track!
• Other ad-hoc tasks may include:
  • Automate operations, basically anything that can scale, for the company. For example, we automated our HR onboarding emails, technical support rosters and even some business workflows
  • Develop cloud automation for improving productivity and security
    

Internship Duration (candidates must able to commit to work for at least 3 months):

Full-time: 3-12 months

Part-time: 3+ days per week (weekdays), 6 months

About you

Minimum Qualifications

• University students who have at least completed pre-final year (i.e., year 3) of study and students who are currently enrolled in a master or Ph.D. program
• Have less than 1 year of full time working experience in a technical related position (please feel free to apply to our full-time positions if you have experience)
• Experience in coding using either JavaScript (for frontend track) or Python (for backend track)
• Know how to use Google effectively to find the solution
• LIVING IN and ELIGIBLE to work in Hong Kong since we cannot sponsor VISA for the position at the moment (this is not a 100% remote position)

Preferred Qualifications

• Major in engineering or computer science disciplines (if you are not in a CS program but have been coding by yourself, feel free to apply too)
• A good portfolio (school projects are perfectly fine) to showcase your interest in software development
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced working environment
• Ability to communicate and present your idea clearly to both engineer and non-engineer
• Good problem-solving skill

Tech Stack

• Python
• Django & Django REST
• ReactJS on TypeScript
• CircleCI for CI/CD
• Amazon Web Services

We Offer

Apart from a great learning experience, we also offer:

• Return offer opportunity
  
• Fun, cooperative, and flexible startup culture
• Weekly sharing sessions and regular happy-hour gatherings
• Flexible working hours

About Bowtie

We are the first licensed virtual insurer (虛擬保險公司) in Hong Kong.

We believe that insurance is fundamentally good, and we are here to bring the good back through our passionate, innovative, and customer-centric team.

By combining our deep domain expertise and our own proprietary modern technology, we are building one of the most iconic, category-defining health insurance companies in Asia.

We take pride in moving fast all the time and our track record in moving ahead in the game.

As we grow, we're always looking for highly dynamic, hands-on, and passionate talent to join our team. If you are looking for a rewarding career where you will grow together with strong talents from different backgrounds and build products and services that bring a positive impact on the lives of millions of people in Hong Kong / Asia, apply to our opening today!

Information collected will be treated in strict confidence and used solely for recruitment purposes.

The company will retain all applications no longer than 24 months of which will be destroyed thereafter.

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, disability, or family status in the employment process.