Engineering Intern, Platform

About Thomas Media:

Since 2014, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards. Built and run from Boston, the site connects pet owners with local sitters and dog walkers. Founded in 2014, we now have 140 employees.

About the role:

This is a hands-on coding internship. Most of the work is in Python and Node.js, with some SQL and a bit of shell scripting. This role is fully remote within the US. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Day to day:

• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack

What we're looking for:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself

Nice to have:

• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP
• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work
• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $44.50-$62.00 an hour

Perks:

• Paid company holidays
• Learning and development stipend
• Return offer opportunities
• Paid sick time

Duration: 5 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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