Software Engineering Placement (12 months)

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

The internship

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. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in Cary, and the stipend is paid monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

Day to day

• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.

What we're looking for

• Based in Portugal for the duration of the internship.
• Eligible to work in Portugal.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• 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++.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.

Preferred

• 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.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $1,500 - $1,800 per month

What we offer

• Company laptop.
• Mentorship.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Online learning budget.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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