Software Engineer Trainee

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.

The internship

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. You will intern remotely with our team in Cologne. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. Working hours overlap with Central European Time.

Responsibilities

• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Write and test backend features in Python or Node.js under the guidance of a senior developer
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result

What we're looking for

• Final-year students or fresh graduates of BSCS, BSSE, BBA or a related program
• Based anywhere in Pakistan
• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home, ideally with a UPS backup
• 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
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++

Bonus points

• Knowledge of Linux command line basics
• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express

What you get out of it

• 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

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: PKR 95,000 - PKR 105,000 per month

What we offer

• Informal dress code
• Certificate
• Letter of recommendation
• 5 days a week
• Performance bonus

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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