Software Development Intern

About us

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

About the role

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. The company is based in Houston, the US. The team is spread across multiple countries. Remote internship with a team based in Houston. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

What you'll do

• 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.
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• Add unit tests with pytest or Jest so new code does not lower coverage.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.

Who can apply

• Based anywhere in Pakistan.
• Have a working laptop and a stable internet connection, ideally with a UPS backup.
• 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.
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in 2027 or 2028.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• 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.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.

What you get out of it

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• 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.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: PKR 85,000 - PKR 110,000 pcm

What we offer

• Laptop provided for the internship.
• Performance bonus.
• Job offer on successful completion.
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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