Backend Engineering Intern (Spring 2027)

About Shenandoah Data:

Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Founded in 2013, we now have 17 employees.

The internship:

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 within the US. The team meets in Chicago once a quarter, travel covered. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Day to day:

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• 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
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations

What we're looking for:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028
• 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
• 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
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

Duration: 16 weeks

Start date: Spring 2027

Stipend: $39.00 - $48.00 per hour

What we offer:

• Paid company holidays
• Flexible hours
• Company laptop
• Return offer opportunities
• Paid sick time

New hires usually start two to three weeks after accepting an offer.

Duration: 16 weeks. Start: Spring 2027.

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