Django Developer Intern

About us:

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Founded in 2000, we now have 260 employees. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

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. Our team is spread across 14 countries. Headquarters is in London. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in London, and the stipend is paid monthly in Pakistani rupees. Working hours overlap with UK business hours. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

What you'll do:

• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.

Requirements:

• Based anywhere in Pakistan.
• Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home.
• Final-year students or fresh graduates of BSCS, BSSE, BBA or a related program.
• Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection, ideally with a UPS backup.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.

What you get out of it:

• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: PKR 95,000 - PKR 135,000 per month

What we offer:

• Performance bonus.
• Certificate.
• 5 days a week.
• Free access to paid learning courses.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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