Software Engineering Intern

About Great Lakes Telephone Cooperative:

Started as a telephone cooperative in 1990, Great Lakes Telephone Cooperative still answers to the members it serves. Great Lakes Telephone Cooperative provides fiber internet, voice and TV service to homes and businesses in rural Illinois.

The internship:

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. This role is fully remote within the US.

Responsibilities:

• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• 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
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack

What we're looking for:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• 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)

Nice to have:

• Contributions to an open source project, however small

Duration: 12 weeks

Start date: June 2027

Stipend: $46.00 - $46.50 an hour

What we offer:

• Home office setup stipend
• Final presentation to leadership
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Learning and development stipend

We are not working with agencies on this role.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: June 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Great Lakes Telephone Cooperative LLC.