Software Engineering Intern

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Chicago, Illinois and two nearshore delivery centres. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

The program:

Skiffward is hiring a Software Engineering Intern for Dec 2026. 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. The company is based in Chicago, the US. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. You will intern remotely with our team in Chicago. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• 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.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.

Basic qualifications:

• Available for the full internship period.
• Based in South Korea for the duration of the internship.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.

Preferred qualifications:

• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.

What you get out of it:

• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• 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.
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.

Program dates: Dec 2026, 6 months.

Intern pay: $2,600 - $2,650 monthly

What we offer:

• Internet allowance.
• Company laptop.
• Certificate of completion.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Paid public holidays.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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