Software Engineering Intern

About Alpen Commerce

More than 360 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Experiments run constantly, and most product decisions follow A/B test results.

The internship

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. This role is fully remote within Germany. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

Responsibilities

• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• 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.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• 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.

Requirements

• Eligible to work in Germany.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Based in Germany for the duration of the internship.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• 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.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.

Nice to have

• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.

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.
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: €2,200 to €2,300/month

Perks

• Company laptop.
• Online learning budget.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Flexible hours.
• Certificate of completion.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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