Engineering Intern, Platform

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We're looking for an Engineering Intern, Platform. We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

The work

• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks

About you

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection

5 months, starting immediately. Stipend: $48.50 - $52.00/hr.

Perks: Flexible hours, Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual), Final presentation to leadership, Company laptop.

No agencies or third-party recruiters, please.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Immediately.

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