Node.js Developer Intern

About us

Dunmore Assurance is a family-owned agency with 2 people in a storefront on Main Street.

Overview

Our Internal Tools team is five engineers working fully remote across two time zones. The intern picks up small backend tickets first and moves to bigger features once comfortable. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in Minneapolis, and the stipend is paid monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Day to day

• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.

What we're looking for

• Final-year students or fresh graduates of BSCS, BSSE, BBA or a related program.
• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home, ideally with a UPS backup.
• Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home.
• Based anywhere in Pakistan.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.

Nice to have

• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express.
• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work.

What you get out of it

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Within 2 weeks

Stipend: $400 - $420/month

What we offer

• Certificate.
• Internet allowance.
• Job offer on successful completion.
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers.
• Performance bonus.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

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