Software Developer Intern

Who we are

Headquartered in Hartford, the company runs operations centers in Connecticut and two other locations. Institutional clients include pension funds, endowments and insurance companies. Founded in 1974, we now have 800 employees.

Overview

This is a hands-on coding internship. Most of the work is in Python and Node.js, with some SQL and a bit of shell scripting. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests

Preferred

• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work

What you get out of it

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: $48.00 - $54.00 per hour

Perks

• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Flexible hours
• Learning and development stipend
• Final presentation to leadership

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Mar 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Emerald Coast Financial LLC.