Software Engineering Placement (12 months)

Headquartered in Cork since 1993, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

Overview:

Our Platform 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 within Ireland. The team meets in Cork once a quarter, travel covered.

What you'll do:

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets

What we're looking for:

• Available for the full internship period
• Based in Ireland for the duration of the internship
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests

What you get out of it:

• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: €2,700 to €3,100 pcm

Perks:

• Laptop provided
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement
• Reference on completion
• Graduate scheme fast-track interview
• Mentoring from an experienced team member
• Flexible working hours

Duration: 5 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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