Engineering Intern, Platform

About us

Our president works out of the main branch and knows most business customers personally. First Northside Bank has 5 employees and three branches, all within 20 miles of each other.

Overview

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. Remote within the US. The team meets in Fayetteville once a quarter, travel covered. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do

• 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
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• 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

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection

Nice to have

• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work
• Contributions to an open source project, however small
• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: $41.00 to $44.50 per hour

Perks

• Company laptop
• Flexible hours
• Learning and development stipend
• Paid company holidays
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Paid sick time

Duration: 6 months. Start: Mar 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at First Northside Bank.