Software Engineering Intern

About Chesapeake Insurance Group

Regional offices in Madison and five other cities support agents and policyholders. Licensing (property and casualty, life and health) is paid for, with study time during work hours.

About the role

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Responsibilities

• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• 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

Who can apply

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• 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)
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express
• Contributions to an open source project, however small
• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $39.00 to $53.50 per hour

What we offer

• Paid sick time
• Home office setup stipend
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Learning and development stipend
• Paid company holidays
• Flexible hours

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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