Software Engineering Intern

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.

Overview

The intern will work on internal tools and APIs used by our support and operations staff. Daily standup on Google Meet, everything else async on Slack. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Day to day

• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets

What we're looking for

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours

Bonus points

• Contributions to an open source project, however small
• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express
• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef

Duration: 10-12 weeks

Start date: June 2027

Stipend: $37.50 - $51.00/hr

Perks

• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Paid sick time
• Return offer opportunities
• Flexible hours
• Paid company holidays
• Learning and development stipend

Duration: 10-12 weeks. Start: June 2027.

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