Engineering Intern, Platform

No call center and no offshore help desk. When clients call, one of us picks up. Clients have the owner's cell number, and the owner still takes the occasional Saturday call. Founded in 1998, we now have 24 employees. Company vehicles are provided for techs who drive to client sites.

The internship

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, open to candidates across the US. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Day to day

• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.

Who can apply

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.

Nice to have

• Contributions to an open source project, however small.
• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.
• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.

What you'll learn

• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers.
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $40.50 to $55.50 per hour

What we offer

• Paid sick time.
• Flexible hours.
• Return offer opportunities.
• Learning and development stipend.

This position requires a background check.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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