Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)

Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from Columbus. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

The internship

Our Integrations 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. This role is fully remote within the US. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning.

Responsibilities

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result

Requirements

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028
• 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
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

Duration: 10-12 weeks

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $48.50 - $50.00 per hour

What we offer

• Learning and development stipend
• Final presentation to leadership
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Paid sick time
• Paid company holidays

Duration: 10-12 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

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