Software Engineering Placement (12 months)

Help desk calls are answered from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with an on-call tech covering nights and weekends. WMB IT provides managed IT for offices of 10 to 200 users: help desk, patching, backups, Microsoft 365 and firewall management.

ABOUT THE ROLE

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. Remote position. Most of the team is in London, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

DAY TO DAY

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Based in the UK for the duration of the internship.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026 or 2027.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.

NICE TO HAVE

• Contributions to an open source project, however small.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: £27,000 - £29,000 per year

WHAT WE OFFER

• Flexible working hours.
• Laptop provided.
• Home working allowance.
• Access to online training.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at WMB IT Ltd.