Backend Development Intern

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. More than 1,300 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Support shifts are shared, so engineers spend a few hours a quarter answering customer tickets.

The program

Prairiemark is hiring a Backend Development Intern for Immediately. This is a hands-on coding internship. Most of the work is in Python and Node.js, with some SQL and a bit of shell scripting. The company is based in Indianapolis, the US. The team is spread across multiple countries. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Indianapolis team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

Responsibilities

Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks. Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems. Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same. Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations. Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets. Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them. Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger. Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.

What we're looking for

Women wanting to start or restart their career can also apply. Available for a full-time (work from home) internship for the full duration. Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection. A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself. Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period. Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests. Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.

Nice to have

Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.

What you'll learn

Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers. You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends. Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.

Program dates: Immediately, 3 months.

Pay: $700 - $750 monthly

Benefits for interns

Certificate. Letter of recommendation. Internet allowance.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Prairiemark.