Software Engineering Placement (12 months)

Who we are

Environmental permitting and compliance consulting is the newest practice area.

Overview

Our Core Services 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. Remote within the UK. The team meets in London once a quarter, travel covered. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

What you'll do

• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• 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.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.

Who can apply

• Available for the full internship period.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028.
• Based in the UK for the duration of the internship.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.

Bonus points

• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
• Contributions to an open source project, however small.

What you get out of it

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: £16.50-£17.00 per hour

What we offer

• Paid holiday accrued during the placement.
• Graduate scheme fast-track interview.
• Laptop provided.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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