Software Engineering Intern

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Founded in 2000, we now have 260 employees. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

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 internship with a team based in London. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Working hours overlap with UK business hours. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Day to day

• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• 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
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same

Requirements

• Eligible to work in Italy
• Based in Italy for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028
• Available for the full internship period
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• 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
• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP

What you'll learn

• 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
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: €2,300 - €2,400 monthly

What we offer

• Online learning budget
• Paid public holidays
• Company laptop

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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