Software Engineering Placement (12 months)

Our field services team covers retail chains, hospitals and banks, dispatching technicians to over 4,000 sites. Enterprise clients outsource service desk, end-user support and data centre operations to us under multi-year contracts. Company vehicles are provided for techs who drive to client sites.

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. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Chicago team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

What you'll do:

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• 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
• 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

What we're looking for:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028
• Eligible to work in Mexico
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $1,650 - $1,700/month

Perks:

• Mentorship
• Internet allowance
• Possibility of a full-time offer
• Flexible hours
• Paid public holidays

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Summer 2027.

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