Software Engineering Intern

Who we are:

Smith Financial is a fee-only advisory practice with two advisors, a paraplanner and an office manager. Planning is done in RightCapital and portfolios are managed in Orion. Dress is business casual, and suits come out for client meetings.

About the role:

Our Platform 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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Day to day:

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• 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
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack

Who can apply:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028
• 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++
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself

What you get out of it:

• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $43.00 - $46.50 per hour

What we offer:

• Flexible hours
• Learning and development stipend
• Home office setup stipend
• Return offer opportunities
• Company laptop

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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