At a Glance
- Tasks: Work on exciting projects improving browser technologies and developing testing infrastructures.
- Company: Join a dynamic software company at the forefront of WebAssembly solutions.
- Benefits: Paid internship, flexible work arrangements, and personal development opportunities.
- Other info: Enjoy a fun, informal work environment with excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in tech while learning from experienced developers.
- Qualifications: Must be enrolled in a Computer Science programme with C/C++ experience.
The predicted salary is between 65000 - 65000 £ per year.
Do you want to work at the cutting edge of browser technologies? Are you interested in working on Development Tools? Join our engineering team, where you will be working on the next generation of compilers and virtual machines that target HTML5/WebAssembly, contributing to our vision of bringing any application to the Web.
We are looking for an enthusiastic developer-to-be, interested in joining a very dynamic and rapidly growing specialist software company developing WebAssembly solutions. This is a full-time paid internship position based in Amsterdam (near Amstel station), Netherlands, with a duration of 6 months, starting in April/May 2026.
What we offer:
- Flexibility and part-remote work is guaranteed to all employees.
- Join a team of incredibly talented minds, in a position with plenty of opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Get to work on challenging, complex and stimulating projects.
- You will work with our CTO and other developers, and get 1-1 tutoring and guidance from the rest of the team.
- We have very minimal overhead, a flat structure, and we prefer to get to work rather than spend hours in meetings.
- We offer high flexibility, family-friendly arrangements, and actively promote a good work-life balance.
- This is a paid internship, you'll be compensated at 1600 EUR per month.
What you will be doing:
- Each internship position will be focusing on one core development project, to be driven by the intern, under the 1-1 supervision of a senior developer.
- Project 1: Improve CheerpJ JIT - CheerpJ is a Java Virtual Machine that runs fully in the browser. Your task will be to implement some self-contained improvements to the JIT.
- Project 2: Create new testing infrastructure using Nix - Familiarize yourself with Nix and design and implement a new testing infrastructure to fit in with our CI.
Requirements:
- Being enrolled in a BSc/MSc or alternative education program in Computer Science or equivalent, ideally in the last year.
- Some practical C/C++ development experience (including University projects) is required.
- Understanding of object-oriented design principles.
- Residence and right to work in the Netherlands.
About Leaning Technologies:
Leaning Technologies makes WebAssembly tools to run any software on any browser. Our tools are used to develop high-performance web apps in ‘traditional’ programming languages, to port existing code to the Web, or to preserve legacy applications by converting/emulating them to HTML5.
We value a great, informal work environment, high flexibility, and having genuine fun and excitement every day at work.
