Software Developer Placement Student

Agents, brokers and direct customers all buy through our platforms, with policy administration on Guidewire. Regional offices in Munich and five other cities support agents and policyholders.

About the internship

Brackwater Mutual is hiring a Software Developer Placement Student for Sep 2027. Our Integrations 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 Germany. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Your projects

• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• 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.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.

Basic qualifications

• Based in Germany for the duration of the internship.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Linux command line basics.
• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.

What you'll learn

• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• 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.

Program dates: Sep 2027, 12 months.

Intern pay: €1,850-€2,450/month

Benefits for interns

• Certificate of completion.
• Mentorship.
• Internet allowance.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.

Include your expected salary and earliest start date with your application.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Sep 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Brackwater Mutual AG.