Full Stack Development (MERN) Intern

About us

The public relations team writes press releases, pitches reporters and handles crisis communications. Franchise brands use us to run local ads for hundreds of locations at once. We use Asana for projects and Slack for everything else.

The internship

Remote full stack internship on the Frontend team. You will take designs from Figma and turn them into working, responsive pages. We are headquartered in Halifax and have been hiring remotely since 2020. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Halifax team on daily calls and get a named mentor. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Day to day

• Update content and plugins on the WordPress marketing site.
• Write simple Express.js routes and MongoDB queries for new features.
• Check pages with Lighthouse and fix accessibility issues such as missing alt text and low contrast.
• Keep a short daily log in Notion of what you worked on and where you got stuck.
• Test forms and checkout flows before each release and log issues in Jira.
• Improve page load times by compressing images, lazy loading and trimming unused code.
• Connect frontend screens to REST APIs and handle loading and error states properly.

Requirements

• Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection, ideally with a UPS backup.
• Based anywhere in Pakistan.
• Solid basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript (ES6)
• Portfolio, GitHub or live project links showing at least two websites you built.
• Basic Git: cloning, branching, committing and opening a pull request.
• Laptop that can run Node.js and VS Code smoothly, and a stable internet connection.

What you get out of it

• Strong interns get a full-time offer or a paid extension.
• How to work from Figma handoffs and talk to designers about edge cases.
• Writing frontend code that other people can read and maintain.
• Certificate, letter of recommendation and flexible hours during exams.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: PKR 80,000 - PKR 85,000 a month

Perks

• 5 days a week.
• Performance bonus.
• Flexible work hours.
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers.
• Internet allowance.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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