Engineering Intern, Platform

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku. We started in 2010 and have grown to about 43 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

THE INTERNSHIP:

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 Phoenix, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

DAY TO DAY:

• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

WHAT YOU GET OUT OF IT:

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

Duration: 10 weeks

Start date: June 2027

Stipend: $43.00-$47.50 an hour

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Learning and development stipend
• Paid sick time
• Paid company holidays
• Return offer opportunities
• Flexible hours
• Company laptop

Apply with your resume. A cover letter is optional.

Duration: 10 weeks. Start: June 2027.

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