Software Engineer Intern

Who we are:

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. Ryeside HQ operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. Support shifts are shared, so engineers spend a few hours a quarter answering customer tickets.

The internship:

The intern will work on internal tools and APIs used by our support and operations staff. Daily standup on Google Meet, everything else async on Slack. The company is based in Cologne, Germany. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Cologne team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Day to day:

• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer

Who can apply:

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself

What you'll learn:

• 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: Summer 2027

Stipend: £21.50-£27.50 p/h

What we offer:

• Graduate scheme fast-track interview
• Laptop provided
• Reference on completion

Duration: 3 months. Start: Summer 2027.

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