Python Engineering Intern - Remote

No call center and no offshore help desk. When clients call, one of us picks up. Clients have the owner's cell number, and the owner still takes the occasional Saturday call. Founded in 1998, we now have 24 employees. Company vehicles are provided for techs who drive to client sites.

Overview

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Remote within the US. The team meets in New York City once a quarter, travel covered.

Day to day

• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• 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

What we're looking for

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++

What you get out of it

• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it

Duration: 10-12 weeks

Start date: June 2027

Stipend: $41.50 - $47.50 per hour

Perks

• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Paid company holidays
• Return offer opportunities
• Company laptop

Duration: 10-12 weeks. Start: June 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Paddockpost Data Systems.