Software Engineering Placement (12 months)

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Internship overview:

Hawkford is hiring a Software Engineering Placement (12 months) for Sep 2027. This is a hands-on coding internship. Most of the work is in Python and Node.js, with some SQL and a bit of shell scripting. Our team is spread across 11 countries. Headquarters is in Chandler. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Chandler team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Your projects:

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer

Basic qualifications:

• Available for the full internship period
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours

Nice to have:

• Contributions to an open source project, however small

What you'll learn:

• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored

Program dates: Sep 2027, 3 months.

Intern pay: €1,750 - €1,850/month

What we offer:

• Company laptop
• Certificate of completion
• Internet allowance
• Mentorship
• Letter of recommendation
• Possibility of a full-time offer

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Sep 2027.

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