Industrial Placement, Software Engineering

About us

More than 360 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Experiments run constantly, and most product decisions follow A/B test results.

Overview

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. Remote within Germany. The team meets in Essen once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Day to day

Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack. Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets. Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same. Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result. Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage. Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger. Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks. Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.

Who can apply

Eligible to work in Germany. Based in Germany for the duration of the internship. Available for the full internship period. Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work. Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period. Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY). Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours. Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests. Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: €1,750 - €2,450 per month

What we offer

Paid public holidays. Flexible hours. Mentorship.

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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