Engineering Intern, Platform

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Founded in 1997, we now have 1,300 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

The program

Glenforge is hiring an Engineering Intern, Platform for Summer 2027. 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 position. Most of the team is in San Antonio, but nobody is required to come in.

What you'll do

• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day

Who you are

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express
• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef

What you'll learn

• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored

Program dates: Summer 2027, 10 weeks.

Compensation: $41.00 - $45.50 per hour

Benefits for interns

• Learning and development stipend
• Final presentation to leadership
• Company laptop

This position requires a background check.

Duration: 10 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

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