Backend Engineering Intern

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku. We started in 2010 and have grown to about 43 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

About the role:

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. This role is fully remote within the US. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Day to day:

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack

Who can apply:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours

Preferred:

• Contributions to an open source project, however small

What you get out of it:

• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $43.00 - $45.00 per hour

Perks:

• Home office setup stipend
• Flexible hours
• Paid company holidays
• Paid sick time
• Learning and development stipend
• Company laptop

Duration: 4 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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