SDE Intern (Remote)

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. We started in 2003 and have grown to about 16,600 people. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

Internship overview

Tamarackwater is hiring an SDE Intern for Jan 2027. Our Platform 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. Remote within India. The team meets in Hyderabad once a quarter, travel covered. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

What you'll do

• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• 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.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.

Who you are

• Can commit full time, from home, for the whole internship.
• Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection.
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in between December 2027 and June 2028.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

Nice to have

• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
• Contributions to an open source project, however small.
• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.

What you get out of it

• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.

Program dates: Jan 2027, 4 months.

Compensation: ₹30,000 - ₹42,000 monthly

Benefits for interns

• Flexible work hours.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Certificate.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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