Software Developer Placement Student

We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centres in four regions. Since 2002, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing. Support shifts are shared, so engineers spend a few hours a quarter answering customer tickets.

The internship

Our Core Services 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. The company is based in Dallas, the US. The team is distributed across several countries. You will intern remotely with our team in Dallas. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Day to day

• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• 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
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage

Requirements

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in France
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Based in France for the duration of the internship
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself

Bonus points

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

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: €3,300 - €3,600/month

Perks

• Certificate of completion
• Flexible hours
• Internet allowance
• Mentorship

Duration: 4 months. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Prairie Apps LLC.