Summer Software Engineering Intern

Who we are:

Since 2017, the company has sold practice management software to dental and veterinary clinics in the UAE. Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The internship:

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. You can work from home anywhere in the UAE. We have no office requirement. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Day to day:

• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• 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
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same

Requirements:

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in the UAE
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027
• Based in the UAE for the duration of the internship
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++

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: 4 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: AED 8,800 to AED 10,000 per month

Perks:

• Paid public holidays
• Flexible hours
• Internet allowance
• Certificate of completion
• Online learning budget
• Letter of recommendation

Duration: 4 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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