Software Engineering Placement (12 months)

Who we are:

Cunha Software is a 2-person software shop in Lisbon. The founders still answer support tickets. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

About the role:

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. Remote position. Most of the team is in Lisbon, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Responsibilities:

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.

What we're looking for:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Eligible to work in Portugal.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.

What you'll learn:

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

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: €770-€980/month

Perks:

• Paid public holidays.
• Flexible hours.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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