Software Developer Placement Student

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP

Thatchhall Labs is hiring a Software Developer Placement Student for Summer 2027. Our Internal Tools 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. Remote within Spain. The team meets in Madrid once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

YOUR PROJECTS

• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• 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
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Based in Spain for the duration of the internship
• Eligible to work in Spain
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef

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
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers

Program dates: Summer 2027, 3 months.

Intern pay: €1,100 - €1,500 monthly

BENEFITS FOR INTERNS

• Online learning budget
• Company laptop
• Paid public holidays
• Mentorship
• Letter of recommendation
• Flexible hours

Duration: 3 months. Start: Summer 2027.

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