Software Engineering Placement (12 months)

About us:

Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Our product started as a side project in 2016 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in Uusimaa. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

About the role:

Our Internal Tools 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. This role is fully remote within Finland. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities:

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• 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.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.

What we're looking for:

• Eligible to work in Finland.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026 or 2027.
• Based in Finland for the duration of the internship.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.

What you'll learn:

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: €1,700 to €1,900 per month

Perks:

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

Duration: 6 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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