Industrial Placement, Software Engineering

About TP Systems:

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Founded in 2013, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

About the role:

The intern will work on internal tools and APIs used by our support and operations staff. Daily standup on Google Meet, everything else async on Slack. You will intern remotely with our team in Jeddah. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. You will work Dubai business hours, Monday to Friday. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Day to day:

• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.

Requirements:

• Available for the full internship period.
• Eligible to work in Brazil.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: R$7,600 - R$9,700 per month

Perks:

• Company laptop.
• Internet allowance.
• Certificate of completion.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Paid public holidays.
• Online learning budget.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at TP Systems, LLC.