Software Engineer Trainee

About Mooring Commerce:

More than 850 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection.

Overview:

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. Remote within Sri Lanka. The team meets in Colombo once a quarter, travel covered. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async.

Responsibilities:

• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.
• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Debug failing builds in the GitHub Actions pipeline and note what caused them.
• Query and update data in PostgreSQL or MySQL, including simple migrations.
• Build REST API endpoints and document them in Postman or Swagger.
• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same.
• Profile slow endpoints and suggest fixes, such as adding an index or caching a result.

What we're looking for:

• Own laptop and a reliable internet connection.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Pursuing a B.Tech, B.E., BCA, MCA, BS Computer Science or a related degree, graduating in 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• A GitHub profile with at least two projects you wrote yourself.
• Some experience with Git, even if only on college or personal projects.
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work.
• Must be able to overlap at least 4 hours a day with the team's working hours.

Bonus points:

• Familiarity with Django, Flask, FastAPI or Express.
• Exposure to Docker or a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.

What you get out of it:

• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers.
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• You will ship at least one feature that real users touch before the internship ends.
• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: LKR 55,000 to LKR 65,000 per month

Perks:

• 5 days a week.
• Job offer on successful completion.
• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Certificate.

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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