Python Developer Intern

Enterprise, wholesale and government customers buy Ethernet, wavelength and dark fiber services. Retail stores, field technicians and customer care all report into regional operations teams.

The program

Waxwing Telecom is hiring a Python Developer Intern for Dec 2026. Our Internal Tools 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. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our New York City team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

Your projects

• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• 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.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.

Basic qualifications

• Women wanting to start or restart their career can also apply.
• Are able to join within 15 days.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in 2027.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Linux command line basics.

What you'll learn

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.

Program dates: Dec 2026, 3 months.

Intern pay: $550 - $650 monthly

What we offer

• 5 days a week.
• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Certificate.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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