Backend Engineering Intern

Who we are

We employ 730 people across underwriting, claims, actuarial, IT and customer service.

The internship

Our Core Services 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. This role is fully remote within the US. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them.

What you'll do

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day

What we're looking for

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests

Preferred

• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express
• Contributions to an open source project, however small
• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef

What you get out of it

• 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: Immediately

Stipend: $51.50 - $60.00/hr

What we offer

• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Flexible hours
• Final presentation to leadership
• Home office setup stipend
• Company laptop
• Learning and development stipend

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at EL Insurance Group LLC.