Engineering Intern, Platform

Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync. We're looking for an Engineering Intern, Platform. Our Internal Tools 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 Oakland, but nobody is required to come in. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

YOU'LL HELP WITH

• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• 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.

REQUIREMENTS

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.

10-12 weeks, starting May 2027. Stipend: $36.50-$51.50/hr.

Perks: Final presentation to leadership, Paid sick time, Company laptop, Home office setup stipend.

We review applications on a rolling basis.

Duration: 10-12 weeks. Start: May 2027.

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