Backend Engineering Intern

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. We're looking for a Backend Engineering Intern. 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. Remote within the US. The team meets in Chicago once a quarter, travel covered. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

The work:

• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• 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.

Requirements:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.

12 weeks, starting Jan 2027. Stipend: $42.00 - $54.00 per hour.

Perks: Company laptop, Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager, Final presentation to leadership.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Jan 2027.

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