Backend Engineering Intern

About KH Lending

Our office is in a converted house near downtown Chicago. KH Lending is a fee-only advisory practice with two advisors, a paraplanner and an office manager.

The internship

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Day to day

• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.

Who can apply

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express.

What you get out of it

• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers.
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $47.50 - $57.00 per hour

What we offer

• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.
• Paid sick time.
• Company laptop.
• Learning and development stipend.

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

Duration: 4 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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