Software Engineering Placement (12 months)

About Fernhill Labs:

Since 2017, the company has sold practice management software to dental and veterinary clinics in the UAE. Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

About the role:

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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the UAE. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

Day to day:

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

Requirements:

• Based in the UAE for the duration of the internship
• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in the UAE
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

Preferred:

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: AED 9,600 - AED 10,500 monthly

Perks:

• Mentorship
• Internet allowance
• Paid public holidays
• Certificate of completion
• Possibility of a full-time offer

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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