Django Developer Intern

Who we are:

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

About the role:

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. Remote position. Most of the team is in Bhubaneswar, but nobody is required to come in. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

What you'll do:

• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack

What we're looking for:

• Women returning to work after a career break are welcome to apply
• Can start right away or within the next two weeks
• Students currently pursuing B.Tech, BE, BCA, MCA, B.Sc or a related degree, or fresh graduates (2026, 2027 or 2028 batch)
• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period

What you'll learn:

• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Within 2 weeks

Stipend: ₹33,000 to ₹35,000/month

Perks:

• Informal dress code
• Laptop provided for the internship
• Free access to paid learning courses
• Performance bonus
• 5 days a week
• Certificate

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

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