Software Engineer Intern

About us

Planning is done in RightCapital and portfolios are managed in Orion. Everyone here is salaried. Nobody is paid on product sales. We started in 1986 and have grown to about 25 people. The office closes early the day before major holidays.

The internship

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Responsibilities

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger

Requirements

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026 or 2027
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• 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
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work

What you get out of it

• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $42.50 to $51.50 an hour

What we offer

• Return offer opportunities
• Flexible hours
• Paid sick time
• Home office setup stipend
• Learning and development stipend

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at CDW Planning Group.