SDE Intern

About Niagara Commerce

Growth has come from search and word of mouth, not paid ads. Our audience is small but loyal: about 40,000 newsletter subscribers who actually open it. Experiments run constantly, and most product decisions follow A/B test results.

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. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Calgary team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT.

Responsibilities

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• 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.

What we're looking for

• Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection, ideally with a UPS backup.
• Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $300 - $350/month

Perks

• 5 days a week.
• Job offer on successful completion.
• Performance bonus.

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

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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