Software Engineer Trainee

About Chesapeake Business Technology:

Chesapeake Business Technology is a managed services provider with 450 employees, supporting more than 1,500 client organisations across the US. Across Illinois, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging. Our dress code is a company polo and clean jeans.

The internship:

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Our headquarters is in Chicago, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Remote internship with a team based in Chicago. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT.

What you'll do:

• 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
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works

What we're looking for:

• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home
• Students currently pursuing B.Tech, BE, BCA, MCA, B.Sc or a related degree, or fresh graduates (2026 or 2027 batch)
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours

Preferred:

• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express
• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef
• Contributions to an open source project, however small

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: 2 months

Start date: Within 2 weeks

Stipend: $700 - $800 per month

What we offer:

• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers
• Performance bonus
• 5 days a week
• Mentorship from senior team members

Duration: 2 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Chesapeake Business Technology.