Software Engineer Intern

We employ 1,300 people in operations, engineering, customer service and corporate roles. Call centers in Reno and two other locations handle customer service. Pension plan for most employees.

The internship

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. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them.

What you'll do

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.

Who can apply

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026 or 2027.
• 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.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• 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.

What you'll learn

• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $46.50 to $52.50 per hour

Perks

• Learning and development stipend.
• Company laptop.
• Return offer opportunities.
• Paid company holidays.
• Paid sick time.

Start dates are flexible, usually within a few weeks of an offer.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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