Industrial Placement, Software Engineering

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Internship overview:

Thatchhall Labs is hiring an Industrial Placement, Software Engineering for Immediately. This is a hands-on coding internship. Most of the work is in Python and Node.js, with some SQL and a bit of shell scripting. Remote within Spain. The team meets in Madrid once a quarter, travel covered. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

What you'll do:

• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger

What we're looking for:

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in Spain
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period

Nice to have:

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef

What you get out of it:

• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers
• 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

Program dates: Immediately, 4 months.

Pay: €1,150 - €1,400/month

Perks:

• Company laptop
• Flexible hours
• Mentorship
• Certificate of completion

Tell us your notice period and what salary you are looking for.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Thatchhall Labs S.A..