Industrial Placement, Software Engineering

About Fernhill Labs:

Since 2017, the company has sold practice management software to dental and veterinary clinics in the UAE. Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

About the role:

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Remote position. Most of the team is in Abu Dhabi, but nobody is required to come in.

Day to day:

• 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
• 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
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• 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:

• Available for the full internship period
• Based in the UAE for the duration of the internship
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• 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
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours

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
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: AED 9,700-AED 9,900 monthly

What we offer:

• Mentorship
• Flexible hours
• Paid public holidays

Duration: 3 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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