Java Developer Intern

About us:

We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centres in four regions. Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Cologne and several other countries. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

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. We are headquartered in Cologne and have been hiring remotely since 2020. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in Cologne, and the stipend is paid monthly in Pakistani rupees. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

Day to day:

• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.

What we're looking for:

• Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home.
• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home, ideally with a UPS backup.
• Final-year students or fresh graduates of BSCS, BSSE, BBA or a related program.
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: PKR 100,000 - PKR 115,000 a month

Perks:

• Job offer on successful completion.
• 5 days a week.
• Performance bonus.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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