Software Engineering Intern

About Mortise EdTech

Everyone reviews everyone else's work before it goes to the client. Most of the team are former teachers.

About the role

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 headquarters is in Rochester, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Remote internship with a team based in Rochester. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

Day to day

Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works. Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets. Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems. Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage. Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack. Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day. Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer. Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.

What we're looking for

Based in Bulgaria for the duration of the internship. Eligible to work in Bulgaria. Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028. Available for the full internship period. Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY). Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period. A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself. Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects. Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.

Nice to have

Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef. Contributions to an open source project, however small.

What you'll learn

Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure. How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored. You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends. Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: €1,550 to €1,900 per month

Perks

Online learning budget. Flexible hours. Internet allowance. Mentorship. Letter of recommendation. Company laptop.

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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