Software Engineer Intern

About Piedmont Data

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in New York City, New York and two nearshore delivery centres. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

About the role

This is a hands-on coding internship. Most of the work is in Python and Node.js, with some SQL and a bit of shell scripting. Our team is spread across 8 countries. Headquarters is in New York City. You will intern remotely with our team in New York City. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.

Requirements

• Available for the full internship period.
• Based in Colombia for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• 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.

Preferred

• Knowledge of Linux command line basics.

What you get out of it

• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: COP 3,900,000 - COP 5,200,000 per month

What we offer

• Flexible hours.
• Paid public holidays.
• Mentorship.
• Certificate of completion.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Immediately.

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