Web Developer Intern

ABOUT US

We work with restaurants, contractors and medical practices in Ottawa. Pillarbench & Co. is a 14-person shop: a designer, a developer, two account managers and the owner.

THE INTERNSHIP

Pillarbench & Co. needs a web development intern to help build and maintain our customer dashboard and marketing pages. The stack is React, Node.js and MongoDB. Our team is spread across 6 countries. Headquarters is in Ottawa. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Ottawa team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

DAY TO DAY

• Attend sprint planning and the twice-weekly standup over Google Meet
• Check pages with Lighthouse and fix accessibility issues such as missing alt text and low contrast
• Build reusable UI components and add them to the shared component library
• Convert Figma designs into responsive pages using React, HTML, CSS and Tailwind
• Fix layout bugs across Chrome, Safari and Firefox, and on small mobile screens
• Improve page load times by compressing images, lazy loading and trimming unused code

WHO CAN APPLY

• Eligible to work in Iceland
• Based in Iceland for the duration of the internship
• Available for the full internship period
• Able to commit 25 to 40 hours a week for at least 3 months
• Solid basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript (ES6)
• 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

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: ISK 550,000 - ISK 580,000/month

WHAT WE OFFER

• Certificate of completion
• Flexible hours
• Mentorship

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Pillarbench & Co. Ltd..