Software Developer Placement Student

Since 2015, the company has sold practice management software to dental and veterinary clinics in the US. Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

The internship

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. The company is based in Tampa, the US. The team is spread across multiple countries. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in Tampa, and the stipend is paid monthly in euros. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Day to day

• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.

What we're looking for

• Eligible to work in Germany.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• 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.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.

Nice to have

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.
• Knowledge of Linux command line basics.

What you'll learn

• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.
• 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: 3 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: €3,300 - €3,700/month

Perks

• Company laptop.
• Mentorship.
• Certificate of completion.

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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