Software Engineer Intern

Who we are:

Started as a telephone cooperative in 1990, Great Lakes Telephone Cooperative still answers to the members it serves. Great Lakes Telephone Cooperative provides fiber internet, voice and TV service to homes and businesses in rural Illinois.

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. Remote within the US. The team meets in Chicago once a quarter, travel covered.

Day to day:

• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage

What we're looking for:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• 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
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++

Preferred:

• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express

What you get out of it:

• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $46.00 to $47.50/hr

What we offer:

• Flexible hours
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Learning and development stipend
• Home office setup stipend

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Great Lakes Telephone Cooperative LLC.