SDE Intern

Since 2019, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards.

About the role

Our Core Services 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. You can work from home anywhere in Sri Lanka. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

What you'll do

• 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.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.

Requirements

• Undergraduates or recent graduates in IT, computer science, management or a related field.
• Own laptop and a reliable internet connection.
• Based in Sri Lanka.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.

What you get out of it

• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: LKR 55,000 - LKR 75,000 a month

Perks

• Letter of recommendation.
• Laptop provided for the internship.
• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers.
• Flexible work hours.
• Certificate.

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Lagoon Online (Pvt) Ltd.