Backend Engineering Intern (Remote)

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 1992, we now have 6,100 employees. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The program

Skiffpath is hiring a Backend Engineering Intern for Immediately. This is a hands-on coding internship. Most of the work is in Python and Node.js, with some SQL and a bit of shell scripting. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our London team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Responsibilities

• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• 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
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer

Basic qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

Preferred qualifications

• Contributions to an open source project, however small

What you'll learn

• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it

Program dates: Immediately, 6 months.

Compensation: $51.00 - $59.50 an hour

Benefits for interns

• Final presentation to leadership
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Home office setup stipend
• Flexible hours
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Paid company holidays

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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