Software Development Intern

Since 2017, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards. We're looking for a Software Development Intern. 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. We are headquartered in Minneapolis and have been hiring remotely since 2020. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in Minneapolis, and the stipend is paid monthly in USD. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT.

You'll help with

• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• 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

You should be

• Can commit full time, from home, for the whole internship
• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• 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

3 months, starting immediately. Stipend: $500 to $550/month.

Perks: Informal dress code, Internet allowance, 5 days a week.

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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