Backend Engineering Intern

About Taloncraft Commerce

Since 1986, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it.

The internship

Our Integrations 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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

Responsibilities

• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.

Who can apply

• 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.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.

Bonus points

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.

Duration: 12 weeks

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $39.00 - $54.50 per hour

Perks

• Home office setup stipend.
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Learning and development stipend.
• Paid company holidays.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

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