Backend Engineering Intern

About Covedeck:

Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules. We started in 2004 and have grown to about 44 people. Company vehicles are provided for techs who drive to client sites.

About the role:

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. Remote, open to candidates across Canada. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. 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
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• 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
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them

Requirements:

• Based in Canada for the duration of the internship
• Eligible to work in Canada
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests

What you get out of it:

• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends
• 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
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $26.50 - $33.50 per hour

What we offer:

• Flexible hours
• Paid company holidays
• Return offer opportunities

Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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