Software Engineer Intern

About us:

Most work comes in through ConnectWise tickets, with a dispatch board for onsite visits. Dell, HP and Lenovo hardware is sold and supported for schools and local governments, as it has been since 2016.

Overview:

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Remote position. Most of the team is in Brighton, but nobody is required to come in. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning.

Responsibilities:

• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result

Who can apply:

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027
• Based in the UK for the duration of the internship
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection

Bonus points:

• Knowledge of Linux command line basics
• Contributions to an open source project, however small
• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: £25,000 to £31,000 pa

Perks:

• Access to online training
• Mentoring from an experienced team member
• Laptop provided
• Flexible working hours

Duration: 4 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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