Backend Development Intern

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 1993, we now have 41,200 employees. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Internship overview:

Trellisloft is hiring a Backend Development Intern for Immediately. Our Platform team is five engineers working fully remote across two time zones. The intern picks up small backend tickets first and moves to bigger features once comfortable. The company is based in Manchester, the UK. The team is distributed across several countries. Remote internship with a team based in Manchester. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time.

What you'll do:

• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.

Basic qualifications:

• Women wanting to start or restart their career can also apply.
• Have a working laptop and a stable internet connection.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in 2027.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.

Nice to have:

• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work.

What you'll learn:

• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers.

Program dates: Immediately, 6 months.

Intern pay: $550 to $700/month

Benefits for interns:

• Job offer on successful completion.
• Informal dress code.
• Laptop provided for the internship.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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