Backend Engineering Intern

FMA Knowledge is a 29-person team producing custom e-learning for corporate clients. Deadlines cluster at the end of the quarter when clients spend their budgets.

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. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Day to day

• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer
• 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
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them

Requirements

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself

Nice to have

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef

What you'll learn

• 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
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $51.00 - $53.00 an hour

Perks

• Learning and development stipend
• Return offer opportunities
• Home office setup stipend

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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