Software Developer Placement Student

About Dublin Cloud:

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:

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 Ireland. We have no office requirement. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• 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.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.

Who can apply:

• Based in Ireland for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• 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.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.

What you'll learn:

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: €2,700-€3,000 per month

What we offer:

• Graduate scheme fast-track interview.
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement.
• Flexible working hours.
• Mentoring from an experienced team member.
• Reference on completion.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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