Web Developer Intern

About Lorimer

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

Overview

Remote full stack internship on the Growth Engineering team. You will take designs from Figma and turn them into working, responsive pages. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the UK. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed.

Responsibilities

• Check pages with Lighthouse and fix accessibility issues such as missing alt text and low contrast.
• Test forms and checkout flows before each release and log issues in Jira.
• Connect frontend screens to REST APIs and handle loading and error states properly.
• Improve page load times by compressing images, lazy loading and trimming unused code.
• Build reusable UI components and add them to the shared component library.
• Fix layout bugs across Chrome, Safari and Firefox, and on small mobile screens.

What we're looking for

• Based in the UK for the duration of the internship.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Willing to learn new tools quickly and ask questions when blocked.
• Able to commit 25 to 40 hours a week for at least 3 months.
• Clear written English for Slack updates and ticket comments.
• Laptop that can run Node.js and VS Code smoothly, and a stable internet connection.
• Portfolio, GitHub or live project links showing at least two websites you built.

Nice to have

• Experience with Next.js or TypeScript.
• Basic understanding of SEO and Core Web Vitals.

What you'll learn

• Strong interns get a full-time offer or a paid extension.
• How to work from Figma handoffs and talk to designers about edge cases.
• Proper Git workflow with branches, reviews and release tags.
• Certificate, letter of recommendation and flexible hours during exams.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: £1,800 - £2,250 pcm

Perks

• Home working allowance.
• Mentoring from an experienced team member.
• Reference on completion.
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement.
• Graduate scheme fast-track interview.
• Flexible working hours.

We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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