Engineering Intern, Platform (Summer 2027)

About us:

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

About the role:

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Remote within the US. The team meets in Houston once a quarter, travel covered.

Day to day:

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• 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.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer.

Who can apply:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.

What you get out of it:

• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.

Duration: 10-12 weeks

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $43.00-$50.50 an hour

What we offer:

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

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

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