Industrial Placement, Software Engineering

Bancroft Learning is a 23-person team producing custom e-learning for corporate clients. Most of our work comes from repeat clients. Fully remote, with a team meetup twice a year.

The internship

Our Core Services 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 Austria. The team meets in Vienna once a quarter, travel covered. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Responsibilities

• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer
• 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
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems

What we're looking for

• Based in Austria for the duration of the internship
• Available for the full internship period
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself

What you get out of it

• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure
• 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: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: €1,700 - €2,200 monthly

Perks

• Possibility of a full-time offer
• Paid public holidays
• Internet allowance
• Mentorship

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Bancroft Learning OG.