MERN Stack Developer Intern

About us

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. We started in 1995 and have grown to about 2,700 people.

Overview

Heatherlight Labs needs a web development intern to help build and maintain our customer dashboard and marketing pages. The stack is React, Node.js and MongoDB. The company is based in Madrid, Spain. The team is distributed across several countries. Remote internship with a team based in Madrid. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET.

What you'll do

• Test forms and checkout flows before each release and log issues in Jira
• Check pages with Lighthouse and fix accessibility issues such as missing alt text and low contrast
• Update content and plugins on the WordPress marketing site
• Fix layout bugs across Chrome, Safari and Firefox, and on small mobile screens
• Improve page load times by compressing images, lazy loading and trimming unused code
• Set up basic SEO tags, sitemaps and redirects when new pages go live
• Connect frontend screens to REST APIs and handle loading and error states properly

Who can apply

• 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
• Based anywhere in Pakistan
• Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home
• Hands-on practice with React or Angular through projects or coursework
• Portfolio, GitHub or live project links showing at least two websites you built
• Understanding of how APIs, JSON and HTTP status codes work

What you get out of it

• Certificate, letter of recommendation and flexible hours during exams
• How to work from Figma handoffs and talk to designers about edge cases
• Proper Git workflow with branches, reviews and release tags

Duration: 2 months

Start date: Within 2 weeks

Stipend: PKR 100,000 to PKR 120,000 per month

Perks

• Flexible work hours
• Laptop provided for the internship
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers

Duration: 2 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

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