Software Developer Intern

About Farrow Labs

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Chicago, Illinois and two nearshore delivery centers.

Overview

Our Core Services 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, open to candidates across the US. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Day to day

• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• 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
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection

Nice to have

• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work
• Contributions to an open source project, however small

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $47.00-$53.00/hr

What we offer

• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Final presentation to leadership
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Return offer opportunities

New hires usually start two to three weeks after accepting an offer.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Farrow Labs LLC.