SDE Intern

About the work from home 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. As an intern, you will:

1. Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.

2. Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result

3. Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.

4. Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.

5. Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.

Skill(s) required: SQL, English Proficiency (Written), JavaScript, REST API, Data Structures, Java, Git

Who can apply

1. Women starting or restarting their careers are encouraged to apply

2. Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection

3. Can commit full time, from home, for the whole internship

Stipend: $500 - $650/month

Duration: 3 months | Start date: Immediately

Perks: 5 days a week, Flexible work hours, Letter of recommendation, Certificate, Laptop provided for the internship, Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers

Number of openings: 8

About Shaw Apps

Our product started as a side project in 1994 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in Victoria. Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Shaw Apps Pty Ltd.