MERN Stack Developer Intern

About us

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

About the role

Our Frontend team runs the company website, admin panel and a few internal tools. The intern will help on all three. We are headquartered in Houston and have been hiring remotely since 2020. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Houston team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

What you'll do

• Update content and plugins on the WordPress marketing site.
• Keep a short daily log in Notion of what you worked on and where you got stuck.
• Check pages with Lighthouse and fix accessibility issues such as missing alt text and low contrast.
• Build reusable UI components and add them to the shared component library.
• Improve page load times by compressing images, lazy loading and trimming unused code.
• Convert Figma designs into responsive pages using React, HTML, CSS and Tailwind.
• Attend sprint planning and the twice-weekly standup over Google Meet.
• Push code to GitHub through feature branches and pull requests.

Who can apply

• 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.
• Based anywhere in Pakistan.
• Have a working laptop and a stable internet connection, ideally with a UPS backup.
• Clear written English for Slack updates and ticket comments.
• Understanding of how APIs, JSON and HTTP status codes work.
• Laptop that can run Node.js and VS Code smoothly, and a stable internet connection.
• Willing to learn new tools quickly and ask questions when blocked.

Preferred

• Familiarity with WordPress theme or plugin editing.
• Experience with Next.js or TypeScript.
• Some knowledge of MongoDB, MySQL or Firebase.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $300 - $350/month

Perks

• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Informal dress code.
• Flexible work hours.
• Performance bonus.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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