Engineering Intern, Platform

Who we are

Help desk calls are answered from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with an on-call tech covering nights and weekends. From the Seattle office, we cover clients within about a two-hour drive and support remote sites through RMM tools. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

About the role

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• 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

What we're looking for

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• 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++
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours

What you get out of it

• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored

Duration: 16 weeks

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $41.50 - $56.50 per hour

Perks

• Flexible hours
• Home office setup stipend
• Paid company holidays

Duration: 16 weeks. Start: Jan 2027.

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