Software Engineer Trainee

Roberts Labs builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors. We're looking for a Software Engineer Trainee. Our Internal Tools 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. Our headquarters is in Los Angeles, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will intern remotely with our team in Los Angeles. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. You will need at least 3 hours of overlap with US Pacific time. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

The work:

• Refactor old modules when asked, keeping behaviour the same
• Raise pull requests on GitHub and respond to code review comments within a day
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets
• 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

About you:

• Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home
• Based anywhere in Pakistan
• Basic understanding of data structures, OOP and how HTTP requests work
• Good grasp of at least one programming language: Python, Java, JavaScript or C++
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)

3 months, starting immediately. Stipend: $300-$400 monthly.

Perks: Letter of recommendation, Certificate, Performance bonus.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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