Backend Engineering & Security Intern

Posted 2 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
Internship
Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence • Hospitality
The Role
Support backend, database, API, authentication, authorization, and security improvements for a live HR platform. Responsibilities include identifying vulnerabilities, improving tenant isolation and access controls, maintaining database integrity and performance, monitoring production issues, writing automated tests, reviewing dependencies, documenting changes, and assisting with backups, migrations, and deployment testing.
Summary Generated by Built In

Team: Backend Engineering · Positions: 1

Role purpose

Help maintain and improve Timmy HR's backend, database, APIs, and security as the platform supports live clients and handles sensitive employee and organizational information.

Key responsibilities

  • Review existing backend code and APIs to identify bugs, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.

  • Help maintain database structure, relationships, constraints, indexes, migrations, and query performance.

  • Review and improve authentication, authorization, role-based access control, and tenant isolation.

  • Help ensure each client organization can access only its own authorized data.

  • Identify potential security vulnerabilities, unsafe database queries, exposed secrets, and insecure API endpoints.

  • Implement input validation, error handling, and appropriate server-side permission checks.

  • Assist with database backups, recovery procedures, migration testing, and data-integrity checks.

  • Monitor backend errors, investigate production issues, and help improve application reliability.

  • Write and maintain automated tests for critical APIs and access-control rules.

  • Review dependency vulnerabilities and support secure coding practices.

  • Document backend architecture, database changes, and security findings.

  • Work with the engineering team to test fixes before deploying them to production.

Required skills

  • Knowledge of backend development using the stack selected by Intelura, such as Node.js and TypeScript.

  • Understanding of SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.

  • Familiarity with REST APIs, authentication, authorization, and Git/GitHub.

  • Basic knowledge of OWASP security principles and secure coding practices.

  • A careful, methodical approach to handling production systems and data.

Expected outcomes

  • Better-tested and more reliable backend services.

  • Documented database and API improvements.

  • Identified and addressed security weaknesses.

  • Improved data integrity, access control, and production stability.

Skills Required

  • Knowledge of backend development using Node.js and TypeScript or the stack selected by Intelura
  • Understanding of SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
  • Familiarity with REST APIs, authentication, authorization, and Git/GitHub
  • Basic knowledge of OWASP security principles and secure coding practices
  • Careful, methodical approach to handling production systems and data
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The Company
16 Employees

What We Do

Intelura is a SaaS Profit Intelligence Platform designed for the food and beverage industry, specifically cafes, restaurants, and cloud kitchens. By combining expert operational analysis with POS and digital data, Intelura provides actionable insights and strategic recommendations to help businesses uncover hidden revenue leaks, optimize their operations, and make smarter, data-driven decisions to grow revenue and protect margins.

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