Django Developer Intern

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. We started in 1995 and have grown to about 2,700 people.

Internship overview

Heatherlight Labs is hiring a Django Developer Intern for Immediately. The intern will work on internal tools and APIs used by our support and operations staff. Daily standup on Google Meet, everything else async on Slack. Our headquarters is in Madrid, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Madrid team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

Your projects

• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.

What we're looking for

• Based anywhere in Bangladesh.
• Available for at least 30 hours a week from home.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in 2027.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of Linux command line basics.

What you'll learn

• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.

Program dates: Immediately, 6 months.

Compensation: BDT 40,000 - BDT 43,000 pcm

What we offer

• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Internet allowance.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Performance bonus.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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