SDE Intern

Enterprise, wholesale and government customers buy Ethernet, wavelength and dark fiber services. Retail stores, field technicians and customer care all report into regional operations teams.

INTERNSHIP OVERVIEW:

Waxwing Telecom is hiring an SDE Intern for Immediately. 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 New York City team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern.

YOUR PROJECTS:

• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.

WHO YOU ARE:

• Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection.
• Can commit full time, from home, for the whole internship.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

NICE TO HAVE:

• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work.
• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.
• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.

WHAT YOU GET OUT OF IT:

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.

Program dates: Immediately, 2 months.

Compensation: $600 - $800 per month

PERKS:

• Performance bonus.
• Job offer on successful completion.
• Certificate.

Duration: 2 months. Start: Immediately.

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