Software Engineer Trainee

About us:

Clients are mostly credit unions, medical groups and municipal governments in Sindh. Every report is written by the person who did the testing, not a separate writing team. Nobody gets in trouble for clicking a test phish. You report it and move on.

The internship:

We need a student who can write clean code, test it and explain what it does. Prior internships are not required. Remote position. Most of the team is in Karachi, but nobody is required to come in. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations
• Join the daily 15-minute standup on Google Meet and post a short written update in Slack
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger
• 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
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same

What we're looking for:

• Based anywhere in Pakistan
• Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home
• Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection, ideally with a UPS backup
• Own laptop with at least 8 GB RAM and a reliable internet connection
• Able to communicate clearly in written English on Slack and in pull requests
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself
• Available for 30 to 40 hours a week for the full internship period
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

What you get out of it:

• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it
• 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: 4 months

Start date: Within 2 weeks

Stipend: PKR 60,000 - PKR 65,000 a month

What we offer:

• Job offer on successful completion
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers
• Internet allowance

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

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