Node.js Developer Intern

About Yousafzai Financial

Small business owners and physicians make up a large share of the client list. Yousafzai Financial is a fee-only advisory practice with two advisors, a paraplanner and an office manager. Founded in 1996, we now have 12 employees. Compliance reviews outgoing client email, so expect to write carefully.

The internship

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. You can work from home anywhere in Pakistan. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

What you'll do

• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• 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

Who can apply

• Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home
• Based anywhere in Pakistan
• Final-year students or fresh graduates of BSCS, BSSE, BBA or a related program
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in 2027 or 2028
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours

Nice to have

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef
• Contributions to an open source project, however small
• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: PKR 55,000 - PKR 75,000 a month

Perks

• Job offer on successful completion
• Performance bonus
• Certificate
• Flexible work hours

Duration: 3 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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