Python Developer Intern

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day.

Overview:

Our Core Services 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. Remote position. Most of the team is in Karachi, but nobody is required to come in. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

Responsibilities:

• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• 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

What we're looking for:

• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home, ideally with a UPS backup
• Based anywhere in Pakistan
• 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
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: PKR 60,000 - PKR 65,000 pcm

Perks:

• Certificate
• Informal dress code
• Mentorship from senior team members
• Flexible work hours

We review applications as they come in.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Karachi Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd..