Software Engineer Intern

Gearset Limited; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Free lunch in office

Top-end hardware provided

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Gearset Limited in Cambridge invites ambitious students for a 10-week summer internship. You will work as part of a small engineering team, shipping features to production and engaging directly with customers and partners to understand impactful problems.

The role emphasizes learning, collaboration, and contributing to product strategy. The position runs July–September 2027, is full-time, Mon–Fri, with flexible hours, free lunch, and top-end hardware.

Qualifications

• Be a current student studying for a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• Be based in the UK; visa sponsorship is not provided for this role.
• Eagerness to solve real-world problems and ship solutions.
• Passion for learning and continual improvement; comfortable giving/receiving constructive feedback.

Responsibilities

• Ship code in your first week and make a meaningful impact to our code base and customers over your 10 weeks.
• Work as a core member of the engineering team to design, build, and ship features to production.
• Learn from and share your experience with a great team in a feedback-driven culture.
• Work closely with users, delighting them with support and gathering feedback to drive new ideas.
• Contribute opinions on design practices to product strategy and roadmap.

Skills

C#/.NET

JS/TS

React

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s student

Tools

GitHub

Job description

• Our small engineering teams start from a few core principles but evolve over time. They all work a little bit differently, depending on their preferences and the problem they're working on. You'll impact what we build, as well as how we build it.
• A great team does their best work with context and feedback - there's no substitute for talking directly with the people impacted by our work. Engineers work across the business and talk directly to customers and partners, to ensure we're solving the most impactful problems.
• Our tech stack includes C#, React, TypeScript, Postgres, AWS and Kubernetes. You'll become familiar with our pragmatically chosen stack, but you'll also help us define what great looks like.

What you'll achieve

• Ship code in your first week, and make a meaningful impact to our code base and customers over your 10 weeks.
• Work as a core member of the engineering team to design, build, and ship features to production.
• Learn from, and share your experience with, a great team from a wide range of backgrounds in a feedback driven culture where you can do your best work.
• Work closely with users, delighting them with support, researching new features and gaining feedback to drive new ideas and ways to improve.
• Contribute opinions on a range of topics, from design practices to product strategy and roadmap.

Great to haves

• Familiarity with any of the following: C#/.NET, JavaScript/TypeScript and React

• Be a current student studying for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant discipline
• Be based in the UK, it's not a role we can provide visa sponsorship for
• An eagerness to solve real-world problems and ship solutions
• A passion for learning and continual improvement, being comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback to make your work even better
• A link to a great example(s) of code you've written (e.g. GitHub)
• You’ll be paid £550 per week, with an additional, up to £600 per month relocation support
• This is a 10 week summer internship July-September 2027.
• It’s a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday based out of our Cambridge HQ.
• Flexible working hours
• Free lunch in the office
• Top end hardware provided
• Gearset has a relaxed, professional atmosphere with no dress code