Summer Software Engineering Intern

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Internship overview:

Thatchhall Labs is hiring a Summer Software Engineering Intern for Immediately. Our Platform 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 position. Most of the team is in Madrid, but nobody is required to come in. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result

Basic qualifications:

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in Spain
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection

Nice to have:

• Contributions to an open source project, however small
• Knowledge of Linux command line basics

What you'll learn:

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next

Program dates: Immediately, 3 months.

Intern pay: €1,200 - €1,300/month

What we offer:

• Possibility of a full-time offer
• Mentorship
• Internet allowance
• Letter of recommendation

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Thatchhall Labs S.A..