Engineering Intern, Platform, Summer 2027

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it.

Internship overview

Houston Online is hiring an Engineering Intern, Platform for Summer 2027. Our Integrations 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. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning.

Your projects

• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• 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.
• 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.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.

Who you are

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.

Preferred qualifications

• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work.
• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.

What you get out of it

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.

Program dates: Summer 2027, 10 weeks.

Intern pay: $44.00-$55.50 an hour

Perks

• Final presentation to leadership.
• Home office setup stipend.
• Paid sick time.
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)

Houston Online provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Duration: 10 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

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