Industrial Placement, Software Engineering

Across Doha, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging.

The program:

Tacklethread is hiring an Industrial Placement, Software Engineering for Sep 2027. This is a hands-on coding internship. Most of the work is in Python and Node.js, with some SQL and a bit of shell scripting. Remote internship with a team based in Doha. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Working hours follow Gulf time, Monday to Friday. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

What you'll do:

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• 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.

Who you are:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Eligible to work in Japan.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• 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.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express.

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.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.

Program dates: Sep 2027, 3 months.

Pay: ¥320,000 to ¥390,000/month

What we offer:

• Certificate of completion.
• Internet allowance.
• Paid public holidays.
• Online learning budget.
• Flexible hours.
• Company laptop.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Sep 2027.

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