Summer Software Engineering Intern (Remote)

About Dar es Salaam Times:

We employ 2,100 journalists, producers, engineers and sales staff. Our newsrooms publish thousands of stories a day across print, broadcast and digital.

The internship:

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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Tanzania. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

What you'll do:

• Pair with other engineers over screen share to work through tricky problems.
• Present a short demo of your work to the team every two weeks.
• 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.
• Update the README and internal Confluence pages when you change how something works.
• Fix bugs from the Jira backlog, starting with small, well-defined tickets.

What we're looking for:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026 or 2027.
• Eligible to work in Tanzania.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Based in Tanzania for the duration of the internship.
• Comfortable writing simple SQL queries (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY)
• 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.

What you'll learn:

• Weekly 1:1 with your mentor to go over what went well and what to work on next.
• How a production codebase is organised, deployed and monitored.
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion, plus a pre-placement offer for strong performers.
• Writing tests is part of the job here, and you will get good at it.

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: TZS 600,000 - TZS 640,000 per month

Perks:

• Mentorship.
• Flexible hours.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Internet allowance.
• Letter of recommendation.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Dec 2026.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Dar es Salaam Times Ltd.