Software Engineer Trainee

About Hofmann Commerce

We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centres in four regions. Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Cologne and several other countries. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

Overview

Our Core Services 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. We are headquartered in Cologne and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will intern remotely with our team in Cologne. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET.

What you'll do

• 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.
• 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.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.

Who can apply

• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home, ideally with a UPS backup.
• Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

What you'll learn

• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• Code review on every pull request, so expect a lot of feedback on naming, tests and structure.
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Within 2 weeks

Stipend: PKR 105,000 - PKR 115,000 pcm

Perks

• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers.
• Job offer on successful completion.
• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Performance bonus.

Include your expected salary and earliest start date with your application.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

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