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Working Student / Intern: Software Engineer (Frontend & Backend) (f/m/x)

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ilert GmbH logoIlert · Cologne, Germany
Full-timeOn-site2w ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaGoRustReact
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Requirements

  • Current Student: Enrolled in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Informatics, or a related technical field.
  • Coding Foundation: Hands-on experience with at least one part of our stack - React/TypeScript on the frontend and/or a backend language like Java, Go, Rust, Python, or Node.js .
  • CS Fundamentals: A solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and how web applications fit together (APIs, databases, Git).
  • Engineering Mindset: You value clean, maintainable code and are eager to learn how a professional SaaS product is built, tested, and deployed at scale.
  • Curiosity & Builder Mentality: Bonus points for side projects, open source, or anything you've built and shipped - backend, frontend, or AI.
  • Language: Fluent English (our working language).

Benefits

🚀 High Impact: Your code helps engineers at companies worldwide stay calm and efficient during incidents.🧭 Pick Your Path: Explore frontend, backend, or full-stack - and find what you love before you graduate.🏡 Hybrid Freedom: Experience our beautiful office in Cologne Rheinauhafen (3 days/week) and work from home (2 days/week).🕒 Student-Centric: Flexible hours that work around your lectures and exam periods.🎓 Elite Mentorship: Work directly with experienced engineers who love to share what they know.🌴 Focus Culture: We protect "maker time," favor async communication, and keep meeting overhead low.We hire for talent and a "builder" mentality, not just a checklist. If you have a GitHub repo or a project you're proud of - a slick UI, a fast API, or an AI experiment that connects to the real world - we definitely want to see it!Find more English Speaking Jobs in Germany on Arbeitnow

Additional Information

Cologne, Germany (Hybrid) Team: Engineering - Reports to: CTO - Format: Working Student (16-20h/week) or Internship (3-6 months) Keep the world awake - build the platform thousands of DevOps teams rely on ilert helps thousands of DevOps & IT teams detect, fix, and communicate incidents faster. When a critical system goes down, our platform is the "source of truth" - from the resilient backend that processes thousands of events per second to the fast, intuitive frontend engineers stare at under pressure. We are looking for a Working Student or Intern who loves building software and doesn't want to be boxed into a single layer of the stack. Whether you lean frontend, backend, or full-stack, you'll ship production code that powers a mission-critical SaaS product. We match projects to your strengths and our business needs - and we're happy to help you grow in whichever direction excites you most. Tasks Ship End-to-End Features: Build user-facing features with React and TypeScript , the backend APIs behind them, or both. Backend & Scale: Help design robust APIs and data pipelines in our backend stack (we mainly use Java and Rust ) and work with distributed systems like Kafka and ClickHouse . Frontend & Craft: Contribute to our modular component library and help keep the UI fast, accessible, and rock-solid when customers need it most. Flexible Project Scope: From core alerting logic to integrations (Slack, MS Teams, Jira) to AI-powered SRE features - we'll match the work to your interests. Quality & Reliability: Write tests and care about clean, maintainable code on a platform where downtime isn't an option.

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