Industrial Placement, Software Engineering - Remote

About Aberdeen Digital

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

About the role

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 the UK. The team meets in Aberdeen once a quarter, travel covered. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

Responsibilities

• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• 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

What we're looking for

• Available for the full internship period
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Based in the UK for the duration of the internship
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

Preferred

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef
• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP
• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: £2,050 - £2,700 per month

Perks

• Laptop provided
• Mentoring from an experienced team member
• Home working allowance
• Flexible working hours
• Access to online training

Duration: 5 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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