Full Stack Engineer Intern

******About The Role****** PayMongo’s Software Engineering Internship is designed for students who want to gain **hands-on experience building technology in a real fintech environment** . As an Intern, you’ll work alongside our engineers and contribute to actual engineering work while developing your technical foundations. You’ll get exposure to how software is designed, built, tested, reviewed, and shipped within a production engineering team. You won’t be expected to know everything from day one. We’re looking for students with **strong fundamentals, curiosity, problem-solving ability, and the willingness to learn quickly and ask good questions** . ****What You Will Do**** ****Contribute to Software Development**** **You Will:** * Support the development and improvement of product features and internal systems. * Write clean, understandable, and maintainable code with guidance from more experienced engineers. * Work on appropriately scoped engineering tasks that allow you to gradually take greater ownership as you develop. * Participate in debugging and troubleshooting technical issues. ****Learn Engineering Practices**** **You Will:** * Gain practical exposure to the software development lifecycle , from understanding requirements through development, testing, code review, and deployment. * Learn how engineers work with existing codebases rather than only building projects from scratch. * Receive feedback through code reviews and use it to continuously improve your work. * Develop better habits around testing, documentation, version control, and code quality. ****Work With the Engineering Team**** **You Will:** * Collaborate with engineers and other team members to understand requirements and translate them into working solutions. * Participate in relevant team discussions, technical sessions, and engineering rituals. * Ask questions, seek feedback, and communicate clearly when you encounter blockers. * Learn how engineering decisions connect to actual product and business needs. ****Tools & Technologies You Will Work With**** Your specific exposure will depend on the projects assigned during your internship. More important than already knowing every technology in our stack is having **solid programming fundamentals and the ability to learn unfamiliar tools and technologies quickly** . You should be comfortable with at least one programming language and have some exposure to concepts such as: * Web or application development * APIs and client-server architecture * Databases and basic data structures * Git or other version-control tools * Testing and debugging ****What We’re Looking For**** * Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering , or another relevant program. * Foundational knowledge of programming and software-development concepts. * Experience building software through academic projects, personal projects, hackathons, student organizations, or previous internships . * Ability to break down problems logically and work through possible solutions. * Willing to render a minimum of 480 internship hours (we are open to extend longer if more than 480 hours is required by your academic institution) * Willingness to learn unfamiliar technologies and seek help when needed. * Receptive to feedback and able to apply it to subsequent work. * Good communication and collaboration skills. * Genuine interest in building technology and understanding how software works beyond the classroom. ****Nice to Have**** * Experience building a web or mobile application. * Exposure to frontend and/or backend development. * Experience working with APIs, databases, or cloud technologies. * Familiarity with collaborative development using Git/GitHub. * A portfolio, GitHub repository, capstone, or personal project that demonstrates how you approach building software. These are **advantages, not requirements** . We are more interested in your foundations and potential to learn than in the number of technologies already listed on your résumé. ****What Success Looks Like**** By the end of the internship, we would expect you to have: * Contributed meaningful work to real engineering projects. * Improved the quality and structure of your code through feedback and code reviews. * Developed greater confidence navigating an existing codebase. * Demonstrated increasing independence in completing appropriately scoped tasks. * Built stronger debugging and problem-solving habits. * Learned how a professional engineering team collaborates to build and maintain production software. * Demonstrated curiosity, reliability, and consistent growth throughout the internship. ****Team & Reporting**** You’ll work directly with members of PayMongo’s **Engineering team** and receive guidance from experienced engineers throughout the internship. The goal is not simply to give you tasks to complete, but to provide an environment where you can **apply what you’ve learned in school, understand professional software engineering practices, and develop the foundations needed for an early-career engineering role after graduation** .