Node.js Developer Intern

Internship details

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. Your day-to-day work will include:

1. Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks

2. Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same

3. Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.

4. Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems

5. Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.

6. Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets

Skill(s) required: Node.js, Linux, Git, English Proficiency (Written), REST API

Who can apply

1. Available for at least 30 hours a week from home

2. Own laptop and a reliable internet connection

Stipend: $400 - $500 per month

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Perks: Free access to paid learning courses, Job offer on successful completion, Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers, 5 days a week, Certificate, Performance bonus

Number of openings: 5

About the company

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. We started in 1995 and have grown to about 2,700 people.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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