Software Engineering Intern (Remote)

ABOUT US:

Buckeyewater Labs is a small team of former military and law enforcement analysts doing pen tests and incident response. Certifications across the team include OSCP, GPEN and CISSP. Founded in 2002, we now have 13 employees.

OVERVIEW:

Our Core Services 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. Remote position. Most of the team is in Tokyo, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• 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
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• 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

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in Japan
• Based in Japan for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• 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
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++

NICE TO HAVE:

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

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: ¥185,000 - ¥215,000/month

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Certificate of completion
• Company laptop
• Paid public holidays

Duration: 3 months. Start: Mar 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Buckeyewater Labs Co., Ltd..