Software Developer Placement Student

About us:

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Dublin, County Dublin and two nearshore delivery centres. We started in 2001 and have grown to about 780 people.

About the role:

Our Internal Tools 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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Ireland. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

What you'll do:

• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• 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.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• 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.

What we're looking for:

• Based in Ireland for the duration of the internship.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Eligible to work in Ireland.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.

What you'll learn:

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• 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: €16.00 - €22.00 p/h

Perks:

• Graduate scheme fast-track interview.
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement.
• Reference on completion.

No agencies please.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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