SDE Intern

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Founded in 1979, we now have 2,600 employees.

Internship overview

Pokhara Technologies is hiring an SDE Intern for Immediately. 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 Pokhara, but nobody is required to come in. Few meetings, lots of written updates.

Responsibilities

• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• 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.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.

Basic qualifications

• Own laptop and a reliable internet connection.
• Students or recent graduates of BIT, BCA, BBA, BBS or a related program.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Any previous internship, hackathon or freelance coding work.
• Competitive programming practice on LeetCode, Codeforces or CodeChef.
• Knowledge of Linux command line basics.

What you get out of it

• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.
• 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.

Program dates: Immediately, 3 months.

Compensation: NPR 27,000 to NPR 30,000 pcm

Benefits for interns

• Laptop provided for the internship.
• 5 days a week.
• Job offer on successful completion.
• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Free access to paid learning courses.

Please include your notice period and salary expectations.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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