Industrial Placement, Software Engineering (Remote)

About us:

Headquartered in Cork since 1993, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

The internship:

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. Remote position. Most of the team is in Cork, but nobody is required to come in. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

What you'll do:

• 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.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.

Requirements:

• Available for the full internship period.
• Eligible to work in Ireland.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027.
• Based in Ireland for the duration of the internship.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.

Bonus points:

• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
• Contributions to an open source project, however small.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: €2,800 - €3,100 per month

What we offer:

• Reference on completion.
• Flexible working hours.
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement.

We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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