Summer Software Engineering Intern

Who we are

Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync. The product is a mobile app plus a React web dashboard, with a Python and PostgreSQL backend on AWS. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The internship

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Our team is spread across 17 countries. Headquarters is in Richmond. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in Richmond, and the stipend is paid monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time.

Day to day

• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• 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
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage

Requirements

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in Italy
• Based in Italy for the duration of the internship
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• 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

What you get out of it

• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next
• 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: 3 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: $2,150 - $2,900 per month

Perks

• Company laptop
• Paid public holidays
• Flexible hours

Duration: 3 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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