Working Student / Intern – Full‑Stack Software Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a motivated working student or intern to join ilert’s engineering team in Cologne. You will contribute to a mission‑critical SaaS platform that helps DevOps and IT teams detect, fix, and communicate incidents in real time.

Key responsibilities

• Develop end‑to‑end user features using React and TypeScript.
• Design and implement backend APIs and data pipelines with Java, Rust or other supported languages.
• Work with distributed systems such as Kafka and ClickHouse.
• Contribute to the modular UI component library and ensure performance and accessibility.
• Participate in projects ranging from core alerting logic to integrations (Slack, MS Teams, Jira) and AI‑powered SRE features.
• Write unit and integration tests and maintain clean, maintainable code.

Required profile

• Current student in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Informatics or a related field.
• Hands‑on experience with at least one part of our stack (frontend React/TypeScript or a backend language such as Java, Go, Rust, Python, Node.js).
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and web application fundamentals (APIs, databases, Git).
• Commitment to clean code, testing and learning how a professional SaaS product is built and deployed at scale.
• Fluent English communication skills.

Required skills

• React
• TypeScript
• Java
• Rust
• Go
• Python
• Node.js
• Kafka
• ClickHouse
• Git

What we offer

• High impact work that supports engineers worldwide during incidents.
• Opportunity to explore frontend, backend or full‑stack development before graduation.
• Hybrid work model: three days in our Cologne Rheinauhafen office, two days remote.
• Flexible hours that adapt to lectures and exam periods.
• Mentorship from experienced engineers and a low‑meeting, async‑focused culture.