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

Cologne, Germany (Hybrid)

Team: Engineering · Reports to: Engineering Lead Format: Working Student (16–20h/week) or Internship (3–6 months)

Keep the world awake - craft the interface of reliability

ilert helps thousands of DevOps & IT teams detect, fix, and communicate incidents faster. Our platform is the "source of truth" during high-pressure situations. When a system goes down, our frontend needs to be fast, intuitive, and rock-solid.

We are looking for a Working Student or Intern who is passionate about building modern web applications. At ilert, we don't believe in "busy work." Whether you join us for a semester or as a long-term working student, you will contribute to production code and help shape the user experience of our mission-critical platform.

Tasks

• Feature Development: Build and ship user-facing features using React and TypeScript.


• Modern Tooling: Work within a modern frontend ecosystem, ensuring type safety and code quality.


• Flexible Project Scope: We match our projects to your strengths and our business needs


• Component Architecture: Contribute to our modular component library to ensure a consistent look and feel across the product.


• Performance & Quality: Assist in optimizing frontend performance and writing tests to ensure our UI never fails when a customer needs it most.

Requirements

• Current Student: Enrolled in Computer Science, Informatics, or a similar technical field.


• The Tech Stack: You have hands-on experience with React and a good understanding of TypeScript.


• Frontend Fundamentals: You are proficient in HTML5 and CSS3 (modern layouts, responsive design).


• Engineering Mindset: You understand Git workflows and value clean, maintainable code.


• Curiosity: You are eager to learn how a professional SaaS product is built, tested, and deployed at scale.


• Language: Fluent English (our working language).

Benefits

• 🚀 High Impact: Your code will help engineers at companies worldwide stay calm and efficient during incidents.


• 🏡 Hybrid Freedom: Experience our beautiful office in Cologne Rheinauhafen (3 days/week) and the flexibility of remote work (2 days/week).


• 🕒 Student-Centric: We are flexible! We'll work around your lecture schedule and exam periods.


• 🎓 Mentorship: Work directly with experienced engineers who are happy to share their knowledge and help you grow.


• 🌴 Focus Culture: We favor async communication and "maker time" over endless meetings.

We hire for talent, not just a checklist. If you have a passion for React and love building clean UIs, we want to hear from you, even if you're still early in your journey.

ilert is a SaaS company for alerting, on-call management and status pages and helps companies to operate always-on services and respond faster to incidents.