Python Engineering Intern

Since 2014, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards. Built and run from Boston, the site connects pet owners with local sitters and dog walkers. Founded in 2014, we now have 140 employees.

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 can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

What you'll do:

• 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
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result

Requirements:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026 or 2027
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $42.00 to $51.50 per hour

Perks:

• Final presentation to leadership
• Company laptop
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Flexible hours

Duration: 4 months. Start: Immediately.

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