Software Engineer Intern

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

About the role

Our Core Services 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 UK. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Day to day

• 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
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems

Who can apply

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Available for the full internship period
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period

Bonus points

• Knowledge of Linux command line basics
• Contributions to an open source project, however small
• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP

What you get out of it

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

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: £23,000 - £32,000 pa

What we offer

• Reference on completion
• Mentoring from an experienced team member
• Home working allowance

Unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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