Software Engineer Trainee

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. More than 1,300 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Support shifts are shared, so engineers spend a few hours a quarter answering customer tickets.

The program:

Prairiemark is hiring a Software Engineer Trainee for Dec 2026. 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. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Indianapolis team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

Your projects:

• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• 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.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.

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, 2027 or 2028 batch)
• 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.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express.
• Contributions to an open source project, however small.

What you get out of it:

• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.

Program dates: Dec 2026, 1 month.

Compensation: $500 - $550 monthly

Perks:

• 5 days a week.
• Internet allowance.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Certificate.
• Flexible work hours.
• Job offer on successful completion.

Duration: 1 month. Start: Dec 2026.

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