Software Developer Placement Student

Who we are:

Environmental permitting and compliance consulting is the newest practice area.

Overview:

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the UK. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning.

What you'll do:

• 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.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.

Who can apply:

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

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: £1,950 - £2,600 per month

What we offer:

• Flexible working hours.
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement.
• Reference on completion.
• Mentoring from an experienced team member.
• Access to online training.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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