Python Engineering Intern

About Walker Outreach

Since 1926, the organization has grown from one shelter into a network of sites across Pennsylvania. Development, finance, compliance and HR teams in Philadelphia support program staff in the field. Evening and weekend events come up a few times a year.

The internship

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. This role is fully remote within the US. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

Responsibilities

• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.

Who can apply

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.

Nice to have

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.
• Contributions to an open source project, however small.
• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work.

Duration: 12 weeks

Start date: May 2027

Stipend: $42.50 - $57.00 an hour

Perks

• Home office setup stipend.
• Flexible hours.
• Paid company holidays.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: May 2027.

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