SDE Intern

About Curlew Systems:

Headquartered in Colombo since 1987, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. We started in 1987 and have grown to about 470 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

The internship:

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 Sri Lanka. We have no office requirement.

Day to day:

• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems

Who can apply:

• Available for the full internship period
• Own laptop and a reliable internet connection
• Based in Sri Lanka
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in 2028

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: LKR 60,000 - LKR 70,000 a month

Perks:

• 5 days a week
• Certificate
• Free access to paid learning courses

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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