Seeking Developer Interns for Analytic Investment Bank Startup focused on Private Equity-can be virtual. Open to current and recent BA/BS students. Prefer NY location.

We are seeking 1-3 interns who would like to be part of the founding team for an analytic investment bank startup, Navon Partners. We specialize in originating deals for private equity funds in private companies. We use quantitative analysis to source private companies. We use social media, data mining, and other non-traditional automated sources to pull in data about potential investments. Our process is modeled on the algorithmic, data-driven process used by quantitative hedge funds. We particularly value experience in crunching large and messy data sets.

This can be a virtual internship, but we prefer candidates based in New York who can work/visit our office (East 18th St.) This is an ideal project for a current or recently graduated student who is interested in learning more about private equity, venture capital, investment research, social media, and how to build a startup. The role is a minimum 10 hours/week during the school year, and full-time during the summer. Your hours are flexible.

We have strong testimonials from interns who have worked with us in the past.

BENEFITS
You will have ownership of your own projects and manage these projects from start to finish during the course of your internship.
+ Hours/work location: Flexible. Work at your convenience and your preferred hours from home, anywhere in the world.
+ Interact and learn from private equity investors, venture capitalists, investment bankers, and other financial industry professionals.
+ Work with an experienced management team: two Harvard MBAs, 3 serial entrepreneurs, alumni of major investment banks and strategy consulting firms.
+ Learn about social media, online networks, and social network analysis.
+ Get to know the New York startup communities.
+ Class credit (if you have a professor who approves your participation, and/or if you can recycle this work for a class)
+ Significant creative input and flexibility.
+ Very positive references (if merited).
+ We have a strong track record of helping past interns win full-time roles at top firms, including in the past McKinsey, JP Morgan, Lazard, and UBS, as well as of course many startups.

COMPENSATION
+ We offer very generous benefits (above). Modest honoraria available for graduates and undergraduates.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Developing our internal platform and database. You may have some modest involvement in building our public website.

REQUIREMENTS

This will be a hands-on position with a direct impact on the success of the business. Clear direction will be provided but you will be expected to complete basic, short coding tasks without hand-holding. In your application, please describe your proficiency with each of the technologies highlighted that you know.

We require:
+ Passion about our startup's vision.
+ Highly motivated self-starter who has a track record of continuous self-improvement, high achievement, and aggressiveness.
+ Strong analytical skills. High attention to detail.
+ You MUST be able to program in a mainstream backend language such as Java, C++, or Python
+ Familiarity with major online networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)
+ Experience developing web applications.

We also value:
+ Experience with any of the following: XML parsing (specify SAX or DOM); Web scraping (specify the tools you've used); JavaScript/DHTML/AJAX; HTML/CSS; Linux; MongoDB; Hadoop; and/or SalesForce API.
+ Strong writing experience.
+ Particularly value experience in data scraping and in building apps that leverage the major social network APIs (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)
+ Belief in the Edward Tufte school of communication.
+ Familiarity with startup environment
+ Experience in web startups, hedge funds, investment banking, private equity, and/or venture capital.

HOW TO APPLY
Contact via e-mail only; do not call. Save your resume in Microsoft Word format with the name 'Last Name-First Name-Year.doc', e.g., 'Hurd-Mark-2011.doc'

Include with your detailed resume:
+ Link to your LinkedIn profile
+ Dates/hours of availability
+ 2-3 short code samples. Each could be a contest problem solution, a class, or a short (<100 line) program that you're proud of. Samples may be in any language.
+ Writing sample (from work or school). Even a short sample is helpful to us.
+ Physical location. You can do all of the work on this project remotely. Include travel schedule.

Please make sure that you include all of the information that we request above, or we will not be able to consider your application. Please send resume and cover letter to Careers(@)navonpartners.com with 'Developer Intern' in the subject line.