Software Development Intern

About RT Payments

Most clients live within an hour's drive and come in for reviews twice a year. Our office is in a converted house near downtown Halifax. Dress is business casual, and suits come out for client meetings.

About the role

Our Platform 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. Our headquarters is in Halifax, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Remote internship with a team based in Halifax. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

Responsibilities

• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.

Who can apply

• Women starting or restarting their careers are encouraged to apply.
• Students currently pursuing B.Tech, BE, BCA, MCA, B.Sc or a related degree, or fresh graduates (2026 or 2027 batch)
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• 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.

Preferred

• Knowledge of Linux command line basics.

What you get out of it

• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Within 2 weeks

Stipend: $500 to $650 monthly

Perks

• Flexible work hours.
• Certificate.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Laptop provided for the internship.
• 5 days a week.

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

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