Engineering Intern, Platform (Remote)

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.

About the internship

Glenforge is hiring an Engineering Intern, Platform for June 2027. 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. This role is fully remote within the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do

• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• 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.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.

Who you are

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.

Nice to have

• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work.
• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.

What you'll learn

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers.

Program dates: June 2027, 10-12 weeks.

Pay: $41.50-$55.00 an hour

Perks

• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Home office setup stipend.
• Return offer opportunities.
• Paid company holidays.
• Paid sick time.

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

Start dates are flexible, usually within a few weeks of an offer.

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

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