Backend Engineering Intern

We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centers in four regions. 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. Remote within the US. The team meets in New York City once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

What you will do:

• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• 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.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.

You should be:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

10 weeks, starting June 2027. Stipend: $47.50-$50.50 per hour.

Perks: Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual), Paid sick time, Paid company holidays.

Duration: 10 weeks. Start: June 2027.

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