Python Developer Intern

About Salthook Systems

Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from High Point. Founded in 2002, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

About the role

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. Our headquarters is in High Point, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in High Point, and the stipend is paid monthly in Indian rupees. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

Day to day

• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• 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.

Requirements

• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home.
• Can start immediately or within two weeks.
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.

Nice to have

• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.
• Contributions to an open source project, however small.

What you'll learn

• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Within 2 weeks

Stipend: ₹59,000 - ₹60,000 monthly

What we offer

• 5 days a week.
• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers.
• Informal dress code.
• Internet allowance.
• Certificate.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

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