Industrial Placement, Software Engineering

About EA Apps

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

About the role

The intern will work on internal tools and APIs used by our support and operations staff. Daily standup on Google Meet, everything else async on Slack. The company is based in Garland, the US. Our team works from several countries. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in Garland, and the stipend is paid monthly in local currency. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Responsibilities

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer.

Who can apply

• Based in South Korea for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Eligible to work in South Korea.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.

Nice to have

• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work.
• Contributions to an open source project, however small.
• Knowledge of Linux command line basics.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: ₩2,450,000 - ₩3,200,000 per month

Perks

• Mentorship.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Internet allowance.
• Certificate of completion.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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