Engineering Intern, Platform - Spring 2027

More than 430 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. We're looking for an Engineering Intern, Platform - Spring 2027. The intern will work on internal tools and APIs used by our support and operations staff. Daily standup on Google Meet, everything else async on Slack. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them.

The work

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer

About you

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period

12 weeks, starting Spring 2027. Stipend: $47.50 - $53.00 an hour.

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

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Spring 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Mid-South Interactive.