Software Developer Placement Student

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

The program:

DBS Digital is hiring a Software Developer Placement Student for Sep 2027. 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. The company is based in Lakewood, the US. Our team works from several countries. Remote internship with a team based in Lakewood. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Your projects:

• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.

What we're looking for:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028.
• Eligible to work in Hungary.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• 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.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.

Preferred qualifications:

• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work.

What you'll learn:

• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers.

Program dates: Sep 2027, 3 months.

Pay: HUF 750,000 to HUF 940,000/month

Benefits for interns:

• Mentorship.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Online learning budget.
• Certificate of completion.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Sep 2027.

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