Backend Development Intern

About the work from home internship

Our Core Services team is five engineers working fully remote across two time zones. The intern picks up small backend tickets first and moves to bigger features once comfortable. As an intern, you will:

1. Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.

2. Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result

3. Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets

4. Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same

5. Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.

6. Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.

7. Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works

8. Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.

Skill(s) required: Linux, JavaScript, English Proficiency (Written), Data Structures, SQL, Git

Eligibility

1. Can start immediately or within two weeks

2. Women returning to work after a career break are welcome to apply

Stipend: ₹32,000 to ₹36,000 monthly + incentives

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Perks: Laptop provided for the internship, Flexible work hours, Letter of recommendation, 5 days a week, Informal dress code

Number of openings: 5

About the company

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Bengaluru, Karnataka and two nearshore delivery centres.

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Ghosh Systems Pvt Ltd.