Backend Engineering Intern

More than 430 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. We're looking for a Backend Engineering Intern. We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US.

You'll help with

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• 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.

You should be

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.

3 months, starting Mar 2027. Stipend: $51.50 - $58.50 an hour.

Perks: Company laptop, Paid company holidays, Learning and development stipend, Home office setup stipend, Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual).

This position requires a background check.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Mar 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Mid-South Interactive.