Backend Engineering Intern

About us

Ridgeview Mutual Insurance is a property and casualty insurer writing policies in 30 states through independent agents.

Overview

Our Platform 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 position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

What you'll do

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• 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
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself

Bonus points

• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work
• Contributions to an open source project, however small
• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef

What you'll learn

• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: $49.00 to $54.50 an hour

What we offer

• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Paid sick time
• Final presentation to leadership
• Learning and development stipend
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Home office setup stipend

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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