Software Engineer Trainee

Who we are

Headquartered in Honolulu, the company runs operations centres in Hawaii and two other locations. Advisors, operations, compliance and technology teams total roughly 580 people.

Overview

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. Our team is spread across 9 countries. Headquarters is in Honolulu. You will intern remotely with our team in Honolulu. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Day to day

• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.
• 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.

Requirements

• Can start right away or within the next two weeks.
• Can commit full time, from home, for the whole internship.
• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in 2026 or 2027.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.

What you get out of it

• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $500 - $600/month

Perks

• Job offer on successful completion.
• Laptop provided for the internship.
• Certificate.
• Letter of recommendation.
• 5 days a week.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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