Industrial Placement, Software Engineering

Our audience is small but loyal: about 40,000 newsletter subscribers who actually open it. Growth has come from search and word of mouth, not paid ads. We started in 2008 and have grown to about 34 people.

About the role

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. We are headquartered in Sunnyvale and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Remote internship with a team based in Sunnyvale. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Our standups are at 9:00 AM Pacific. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Responsibilities

• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• 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

Who can apply

• Eligible to work in Spain
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028
• Based in Spain for the duration of the internship
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $2,350 to $3,000 monthly

Perks

• Internet allowance
• Paid public holidays
• Certificate of completion
• Possibility of a full-time offer
• Flexible hours
• Letter of recommendation

Please include your notice period and salary expectations.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Immediately.

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