Software Engineer Intern

Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync. Built in Atlanta, our document management tool is used by county clerks, title companies and small law offices. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

The internship

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. We are headquartered in Atlanta and have been hiring remotely since 2020. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Atlanta team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Responsibilities

• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Based in Egypt for the duration of the internship
• Eligible to work in Egypt
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• 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
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests

Preferred

• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP
• Contributions to an open source project, however small
• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work

What you'll learn

• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: EGP 17,000 to EGP 21,500/month

What we offer

• Flexible hours
• Mentorship
• Online learning budget
• Possibility of a full-time offer
• Internet allowance
• Company laptop

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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