Software Development Intern (Fully Remote)

As a Software Development Intern, you will primarily work on building and enhancing our core backend services while occasionally contributing to frontend development. You’ll collaborate closely with our small, fast-moving engineering team, gaining exposure to the entire product lifecycle from design to deployment. This role offers the unique benefits of working in a startup environment - ownership, rapid learning, and the opportunity to make a visible impact on real products used by our customers. This position will be a stipend-based, full-time, 6-month internship. What You’ll Be Doing

• You’ll assist in designing and building scalable systems used by millions of students and companies.
• You'll collaborate with teams on specific components or projects, gaining hands-on experience in backend and fullstack development.
• You'll help troubleshoot production issues and contribute to finding long-term fixes. Why You'll Love This Role
• We believe in a small and effective team - you’ll have a voice in what to build and will take ownership of your contributions.
• You will bring a fresh perspective to our projects, contributing innovative ideas and solutions that enhance our development processes. Your Attributes
• You are fast-paced: you love the speed of and impact you have in startups. You set aggressive milestones for yourself and do extra to meet them.
• You are championing quality through your own coding practices.
• You are actively working to hone your craft and be a better programmer.
• You are accountable: if you ship something you own it from inception to production.
• You are collaborative: you work with other engineers on solutions that cut across teams/technologies.
• You can manage your workload: you communicate frequently and honestly to stakeholders and yourself about the work you commit to. Your Experience Ideally you should have:
• Foundational understanding of software development principles.
• Command over one programming language - preferably JS/Python/Java - including basic debugging skills.
• Experience or coursework in building web applications and familiarity with at least one framework (e.g., Express, Django).
• Experience working with SQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Some knowledge of caching techniques and utilities like Memcache / Redis.
• Basic understanding of the REST paradigm, service-oriented architecture, and distributed systems. You stand out from the crowd if:
• You have worked at a remote-first organization
• You have prior internship experience Consider this our wish-list. We know there will be great candidates that don't meet every one of these criteria—if you're passionate about the role and have early-stage startup experience, we'd still love to hear from you.