Software Engineering Intern

Clients include hospitals, school districts and local governments. Rechtsanwälte Lorenz is a litigation firm handling personal injury, workers' compensation and wrongful death cases.

About the role

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Remote within Germany. The team meets in Munich once a quarter, travel covered. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Day to day

Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations. Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result. Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets. 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. Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks. Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems. Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.

Who can apply

Available for the full internship period. Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028. Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period. 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. Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.

Nice to have

Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef. Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP. Knowledge of Linux command line basics.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: €1,950 - €2,250/month

What we offer

Company laptop. Mentorship. Online learning budget.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Mar 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Rechtsanwälte Lorenz.