Jobs › US Foods

Intern – Software Engineer, Digital Commerce (Hybrid: Onsite & Remote)

US Foods · Rosemont, IL · Full time

Posted Sep 1, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

Apply at US Foods

Likely interview questions for this role

Written from this job description, not a generic list. Each one notes what the interviewer is really checking.

About your past

Walk me through a web or mobile application you built. What was the stack, and what was hard about it?

What they are checking: Real hands-on building experience and honest reflection on technical challenges.

Tell me about a time you got stuck on a bug. How did you get unstuck?

What they are checking: Persistence and knowing when to search, experiment or ask for help.

What would you do

A code reviewer asks you to rewrite something you thought was fine. How do you respond?

What they are checking: Openness to feedback and willingness to learn team standards instead of defending code out of pride.

How would you explain your summer project to business leaders who do not write code?

What they are checking: Ability to describe technical work in terms of what customers and the business gain.

About the work

How does a web page get data from a server, from the click to what the user sees?

What they are checking: Understanding of requests, APIs and rendering, which is basic to digital commerce work.

What is a REST API, and how would you design one for adding an item to a shopping cart?

What they are checking: Ability to think through endpoints, data and errors for a common commerce feature.

Write a function that finds duplicate items in a customer's order list. How would you make it efficient?

What they are checking: Core coding ability and awareness of time complexity for simple data problems.

The ordering page is slow for customers. What could cause that, and how would you investigate?

What they are checking: Debugging approach across front end, network and back end rather than guessing at one cause.

How do you test your own code before you ask someone to review it?

What they are checking: Habits around unit tests and manual checks that show ownership of quality.

Have you used Git on a team? Tell me about a merge conflict you resolved.

What they are checking: Practical version control experience needed to work in a shared codebase.

Practice this interview out loud.

Offer builds a real interview for this exact role at US Foods from your resume and this job description, asks the questions one at a time, and tells you what landed. The first one is free.

Practice this out loud

The full job description

As published by US Foods.

ARE YOU A CURRENT US FOODS EMPLOYEE? PLEASE APPLY DIRECTLY THROUGH OUR INTERNAL WORKDAY CAREER SITE Join Our Community of Food People! The US Foods Summer Internship Program provides a forum for students to apply classroom skills and academic training in a real-world business environment. In addition to being assigned business-impacting projects throughout the summer, students will be matched with a manager who will meet with them on a regular basis to provide direction on assignments as well as deliver performance feedback and a mentor who will be available to offer day-to-day guidance and support. Interns will also get exposure to US Foods executive leadership; have an opportunity to participate in learning and social events with other interns across business functions and have an opportunity to deliver an end of summer presentation to showcase their accomplishments with key business leaders. US Foods internships are full-time paid positions (40 hours per week from June - August) with the possibility of transitioning to a full-time position post-graduation dependent on availability and overall performance. This position has been segmented as Hybrid meaning the work is a combination of onsite and remote. Please note: We are unable to provide internships to students that require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., OPT, F-1, H-1B or any other visa status) now or in the future. [For Rosemont based internships only] Local candidates are encouraged to apply. For qualified students whose permanent home of record is located outside 50 miles from US Foods Corporate HQ, a sign-on bonus will be offered to partially offset housing costs for the summer. BASIC PURPOSE: With direct supervision and oversight, this intern position provides exposure and opportunity to investigate a career, gain business knowledge and practical application of web and application development within the food distribution industry. US Foods has a number of opportunities that will exercise and develop the intern’s skills in front-end and/or back-end web application development. Opportunities include our customer and employee web sites, portal-based internal applications, and mobile applications. The intern will engage in creating APIs that share product information, gather and submit order detail or execute data transformation services in addition to front end development all with the goal of creating an outstanding experience for users while leveraging the latest technologies. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Assist and participate in project ideation - from concept to delivery • Gather information from existing systems, analyze program and time requirements • Prepare detailed specifications from which programs are developed and coded • Develop moderately complex programs • Ensure programs meet standards and technical specifications • Develop test plans to verify logic of new or modified programs • Create documentation of work assignments such as program code and technical documentation • Assist support and/or project personnel in resolving program issues BASIC REQUIREMENTS: • Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems/Science or related area of study • Must be enrolled in school during time of internship • Typically, students currently between their Junior and Senior years or between their 1st and 2nd years of graduate school will be considered for internships • Coursework or skill in object-oriented programming • Coursework or skill in Java development • Database server development experience • Web application development experience OR hands-on website development experience • Experience integrating front-end templates with back-end functionality • Experience with front-end web development languages PREFERRED SKILLS: Coursework or experience with: • Requirements gathering, design, implementation, integration and testing; developing database driven sites • Microservice Architecture • JDBC, JMS, Web Services, J2EE, Applet, Servlet, JSP, JSON • HTML5, CSS3, Angular, JavaScript/jQuery • WebLogic, Tomcat • Docker, Kubernetes • Kafka • Swagger • AWS (API Gateway, WebSocket, Lambda, EC2, S3) • New Relic • Git ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS : • Must have regular, reliable method of transportation to commute to US Foods’ location. RELATIONSHIPS INTERNAL/EXTERNAL MAY INCLUDE: • Internal: Core Team, Internal Business Clients • External: Vendors ***EOE – Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/ Age/Genetic Information /Protected Veteran/Disability Status***

Apply at US Foods