Software Engineer Trainee

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

About the internship

DBS Digital is hiring a Software Engineer Trainee for Within 2 weeks. This is a hands-on coding internship. Most of the work is in Python and Node.js, with some SQL and a bit of shell scripting. We are headquartered in Lakewood and have been hiring remotely since 2020. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in Lakewood, and the stipend is paid monthly in Indian rupees. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern.

What you'll do

• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.
• 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.
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.

Who you are

• Women starting or restarting their careers are encouraged to apply.
• Can start immediately or within two weeks.
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in 2026 or 2027.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.

Nice to have

• Contributions to an open source project, however small.
• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express.

What you get out of it

• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.

Program dates: Within 2 weeks, 4 months.

Intern pay: ₹53,000 to ₹58,000 per month

What we offer

• Flexible work hours.
• Free access to paid learning courses.
• 5 days a week.
• Internet allowance.
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers.
• Performance bonus.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

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