Python Developer Intern

Headquartered in Faisalabad, the company has 460 employees and contact centres in four locations. Enterprise, wholesale and government customers buy Ethernet, wavelength and dark fiber services. Most installers work four 10s, with Saturday coverage on a rotation.

The internship

Our Platform 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 Faisalabad, but nobody is required to come in. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Day to day

• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• 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
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage

Requirements

• Final-year students or fresh graduates of BSCS, BSSE, BBA or a related program
• Based anywhere in Pakistan
• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home, ideally with a UPS backup
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Linux command line basics
• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: PKR 60,000 - PKR 70,000 per month

Perks

• Performance bonus
• Flexible work hours
• Laptop provided for the internship
• Mentorship from senior team members

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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