Software Engineering Intern

Who we are:

Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules. We started in 2021 and have grown to about 23 people. Our dress code is a company polo and clean jeans.

About the role:

Our Internal Tools 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 internship is fully remote. Interns join our Southampton team on daily calls and get a named mentor.

Responsibilities:

• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• 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
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same

Requirements:

• Eligible to work in Portugal
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects

Preferred:

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef
• Knowledge of Linux command line basics
• Contributions to an open source project, however small

What you'll learn:

• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored
• 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: 6 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: $1,900 - $2,500 per month

Perks:

• Letter of recommendation
• Internet allowance
• Online learning budget

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Mar 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at White Computer Services Ltd.