Industrial Placement, Software Engineering

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Dublin, County Dublin and two nearshore delivery centres. Dublin Labs employs 6,900 people across engineering hubs in Dublin and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

The program:

Dublin Labs is hiring an Industrial Placement, Software Engineering for Dec 2026. 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. We are headquartered in Dublin and have been hiring remotely since 2020. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Dublin team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

What you'll do:

• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works

What we're looking for:

• Based in the UK for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028
• 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
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express
• Contributions to an open source project, however small

What you'll learn:

• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers

Program dates: Dec 2026, 5 months.

Intern pay: £4,100 - £5,000 pcm

Perks:

• Access to online training
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement
• Mentoring from an experienced team member
• Laptop provided

Duration: 5 months. Start: Dec 2026.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Dublin Labs Ltd.