Software Engineering Intern

At Enact, we understand that there’s no place like home. That’s why we bring our deep expertise, insightful offerings, and extra mile service to work every day to help lenders put more people in homes and keep them there.

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Intern in Raleigh, NC to join us in fulfilling our mission, while utilizing our values of excellence, improvement, and connection. In addition to the multiple weekly events attended by all interns, you’ll work alongside industry experts for a 12-week internship beginning May 17, 2027. In this role, you will support our Pricing & Rules Platform team over the summer. You will help modernize, build self-service tooling for business users, and advance evaluation and automation initiatives. This is a hands-on role with exposure to enterprise Java, rules engines, cloud identity, and modern web/DevOps practices.

THE PROGRAM

Enact’s Internship Program provides an excellent opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience in achieving business results while developing technical and professional skills. The internship program is a critical component of Enact’s talent pipeline as we look to interns to provide cutting edge ideas and skills that will drive business success.

Enact invests time, energy, and resources to create a worthwhile experience for interns. Interns work on meaningful business projects, but beyond that, they will network directly with leaders throughout the company (all the way up to the CEO), attend teambuilding events with their internship cohort, connect with the community through volunteer opportunities (both on-site and off-site), and attend professional development workshops. It’s a unique internship experience that helps interns develop a network of peers and mentors who act as a source of constant engagement and guidance during the internship.

LOCATION
Enact Headquarters, Raleigh, NC – Hybrid Schedule

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the Rules Engine Modernization and assist upgrading Drools and migrating from Java 8 to a current LTS (Java 17/21)
• Set up and run rules in champion/challenger mode
• Help with cache removal & runtime data loading
• Benchmark options for performance, freshness, and reliability
• Assist with the build a UI to expose the Drools workbench to users with role-based access
• Implement validation and guardrails so business-authored rules stay safe and consistent.
• Document trade-offs in performance, maintainability, and cost to inform a recommendation.
• Support dependency/framework upgradesand remediate deprecated libraries and outdated build configs.
• Assist migrating authentication/authorization to Okta, including role setup, configuration, testing, and documentation (ties into the workbench role model).
• Build automation/tooling to streamline pricing rule validation, testing, and deployment workflows.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Proficiency in Java (core language, OOP fundamentals).
• Understanding of REST APIs and microservice concepts.
• Familiarity with Git and version control workflows.
• Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Exposure to Drools or any business rules engine / decision tables.
• Spring / Spring Boot experience.
• Maven or Gradle build tools.
• Front-end experience (JavaScript/TypeScript, React) for the workbench UI.
• Identity/SSO concepts (OAuth2, OIDC, Okta) and role-based access control (RBAC).
• Caching/data-loading concepts (Redis, in-memory grids, lazy loading).
• CI/CD, Docker, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP); scripting (Python, Bash)

COMPANY
Enact Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACT), operating primarily through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a leading publicly traded U.S. private mortgage insurance provider, offering borrower-centric products that enable lenders and other partners across the U.S. to help people responsibly achieve and maintain the dream of homeownership.

By empowering customers and their borrowers, Enact seeks to positively impact the lives of those in the communities in which it serves in a sustainable way. Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, we play an active role in supporting a prosperous Triangle community. We also support our colleagues’ philanthropic efforts in their home communities across the U.S. Enact values all perspectives, characteristics and experiences, along with providing a positive and inclusive culture for employees to grow and succeed. We strive to create an environment where employees can bring their full, authentic selves to work to help each other and their customers.
 

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and all hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

WHY WORK AT ENACT

• We bring innovative thinking to the situations at hand
• We seek out and incorporate diverse views to strengthen our outcomes
• We work on challenging and rewarding projects

This role is eligible for employment visa sponsorship.