Backend Engineering Intern

Since 2013, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices. Licensing exams (SIE, Series 7, Series 66) are paid for, with study time during work hours.

Overview:

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 Austin once a quarter, travel covered. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning.

Day to day:

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• 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
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them

Who can apply:

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period

Preferred:

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef
• Contributions to an open source project, however small
• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express

What you'll learn:

• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next

Duration: 12 weeks

Start date: May 2027

Stipend: $46.50 - $48.50 per hour

What we offer:

• Home office setup stipend
• Flexible hours
• Paid company holidays
• Learning and development stipend

Most hires start within two to three weeks of an offer.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: May 2027.

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