Software Engineering Placement (12 months)

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 1998, we now have 960 employees. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Overview

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. Our team is spread across 14 countries. Headquarters is in Broken Arrow. You will intern remotely with our team in Broken Arrow. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

Day to day

• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• 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.

Requirements

• Eligible to work in Latvia.
• Based in Latvia for the duration of the internship.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: €1,500 - €1,750/month

What we offer

• Online learning budget.
• Internet allowance.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Paid public holidays.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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