Backend Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)

About Inland Empire Christian School:

Inland Empire Christian School is a public school district with more than 40,000 students and 330 employees. As a charter network of 25 schools, the organization runs campuses in several cities. Teachers work 187 days a year, with summers off.

About the role:

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 Rockville, but nobody is required to come in. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Responsibilities:

• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations

Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

Duration: 12 weeks

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $40.00 to $49.50 per hour

Perks:

• Learning and development stipend
• Home office setup stipend
• Paid sick time

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Inland Empire Christian School LLC.