Software Developer Placement Student

About London Assurance:

The company underwrites workers' compensation for small and mid-sized employers. Employee benefits clients use us for group health, dental, vision and life plans.

The internship:

Our Platform 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. This role is fully remote within the UK. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.

Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Based in the UK for the duration of the internship.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: £2,100 - £2,700 a month

Perks:

• Mentoring from an experienced team member.
• Laptop provided.
• Graduate scheme fast-track interview.
• Flexible working hours.
• Home working allowance.

We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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