Backend Engineering Intern (Remote)

More than 430 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it.

About the role

The intern will work on internal tools and APIs used by our support and operations staff. Daily standup on Google Meet, everything else async on Slack. Remote position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities

Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same. Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works. Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack. Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage. Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.

What we're looking for

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. A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself. Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work. Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours. Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY). Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.

What you get out of it

You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends. How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.

Duration: 10-12 weeks

Start date: May 2027

Stipend: $53.00 to $57.00/hr

What we offer

Company laptop. Home office setup stipend. Paid sick time.

Duration: 10-12 weeks. Start: May 2027.

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