Software Engineer Intern

About us

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Spree Cloud builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors.

The internship

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. Remote position. Most of the team is in Berlin, but nobody is required to come in. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

What you'll do

• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.

What we're looking for

• Eligible to work in Germany.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• 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.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

Bonus points

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.
• Contributions to an open source project, however small.
• Knowledge of Linux command line basics.

What you'll learn

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: €2,100 - €2,250/month

What we offer

• Paid public holidays.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Internet allowance.
• Company laptop.
• Flexible hours.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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