Summer Software Engineering Intern

About Harlan Apps

Headquartered in Cork since 1993, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

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. Remote position. Most of the team is in Cork, but nobody is required to come in. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Responsibilities

• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets

Who can apply

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Eligible to work in Ireland
• Available for the full internship period
• Based in Ireland for the duration of the internship
• 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
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• 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

What you'll learn

• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: €18.00 - €19.50 an hour

Perks

• Laptop provided
• Flexible working hours
• Home working allowance

You must have the right to work in Ireland.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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