Intern, Application Support

Are you ready to keep the worlds money moving

At Flywire our Payments Platform processes billions of dollars across 240 countries and when something goes wrong payers cant pay clients cant get paid and the business stops. Thats where Application Support comes in. We are the team that keeps the platform running: investigating production issues partnering with Engineering to fix root causes and turning recurring pain into permanent improvements.

We are looking for Fly-terns (Final year students) in London to join the Application Support team this summer. You wont just be shadowing youll be working on real production issues and building tooling that makes our team faster smarter and more proactive.

The Role: Project-Driven & Supported

As a Fly-tern in Application Support you will be embedded within our team and participate in our day-to-day rituals triage ticket reviews incident handling while focusing on a specific high-impact project designed for your 6-week journey.

To ensure you grow and succeed you will have a dedicated support system:

• A Mentor: A senior Application Support engineer for day-to-day guidance pair-debugging sessions and code reviews.

• A Manager: To support your professional growth provide feedback and help you navigate the Flywire culture.

What Youll Work On

Application Support sits at the intersection of engineering product and operations so your project can dive deep into very different technical areas. Possible domains include:

• Support Tooling & Automation: Building internal tools (Ruby/Python) and integrations that reduce manual work auto-triage scripts ticket enrichers self-service runbooks or operational dashboards used by the team every day.

• Observability & Insights: Designing dashboards and alerts on top of our payments data (Sumo Logic Jira MySQL MongoDB) to surface recurring issues escalation patterns or SLA risks before they become incidents.

• AI-Augmented Support: Helping us push the boundaries of how Application Support uses AI from automated investigation agents to AI-assisted ticket categorization and knowledge base generation from past resolutions.

• Root-Cause Engineering: Pairing with the team on a recurring class of production issues from data inconsistencies in the global ledger to integration failures with banking partners and shipping the fix end-to-end with our Engineering squads.

AI-Augmented Engineering

Application Support is one of the most AI-forward teams at Flywire. As an intern you will learn to leverage cutting-edge AI tools like Cursor Claude Code and Gemini to investigate issues faster draft runbooks query logs and build internal automations. We treat AI as a teammate and well teach you how to get the most out of it.

Qualifications :

Heres What Were Looking For

• Current student in the 4th year of a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Software Engineering AI or Data Science. We highly value candidates from Double Degrees in Mathematics and Informatics Engineering as well as specialized degrees in Artificial Intelligence Data Science or Informatics Engineering.

• Tech Foundations: Comfortable with SQL and at least one scripting language (Python Ruby JavaScript). Curiosity about how distributed systems APIs and databases behave in production is more important than years of experience.

• The Support Mindset: You enjoy debugging more than greenfield coding. You like asking why is this happening until you reach the real answer and you care about both the technical fix and the user on the other side of the ticket.

• Communication: Fluency in Spanish and a strong working command of English to collaborate with our global teams partner with Engineering and write clear empathetic responses to internal stakeholders.

• Bonus: any exposure to FinTech payments observability tools (Sumo Logic Datadog Grafana) or ticketing systems (Jira) will be appreciated.

Our Tech Stack

• Platforms we support: Ruby on Rails Java (Spring Boot) React

• Data/Messaging: MySQL MongoDB Redis RabbitMQ

• Observability & Tooling: Sumo Logic Jira GitLab CI AWS

• AI & Tools: Cursor Claude Code Gemini

What We Offer

• Flexible June Start: We prioritize your exams; your start date is adaptable.

• London Hub Culture: Work from our founding office with a vibrant community of FlyMates.

• Global Showcase: Present your project results to engineering and operations leaders across the globe.

• Career Growth: Successful Fly-terns are our first priority for full-time Associate roles after graduation.

Additional Information :

Submit today and get started!

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager Peers on the team the VP of the department and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your go-to person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 30 nationalities across 12 different offices and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda we believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset and were excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Intern

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1