Backend Development Intern

About us:

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Pewtergrid Labs is a 8-person software shop in Indore. The founders still answer support tickets. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

About the role:

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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in India. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Day to day:

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.

What we're looking for:

• Can start immediately or within two weeks.
• Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection.
• Students currently pursuing B.Tech, BE, BCA, MCA, B.Sc or a related degree, or fresh graduates (2027 batch)
• Women wanting to start or restart their career can also apply.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.

Bonus points:

• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: ₹25,000 - ₹36,000/month

What we offer:

• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Laptop provided for the internship.
• Flexible work hours.

We review applications as they come in.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Pewtergrid Labs.