Backend Engineer - Internship
Certa (company site, opens in a new tab)On-siteDirect career pageEst. 5–12 LPA
Posted on 3 Sept
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About This Role
- Build and ship production-ready REST/GraphQL backend APIs used by Fortune 500 companies with real ownership.
- Own issues end-to-end including debugging from database queries to API response.
- Design data models and participate in code reviews; gradually own a backend service or subsystem.
Minimum Requirements
- Proficiency in at least one backend language: Python, Node.js, Go, or Java.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, system design basics, and databases.
- Experience building projects involving relational databases, authentication, caching, API error handling, message queues/background jobs, and deployment beyond localhost.
- Work Experience Required: Internship (3 months, paid, with opportunity for full-time conversion based on performance).
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Has real project experience building backend systems touching databases, auth, caching, messaging, and deployment.
- Comfortable with production-level API design and debugging, showing ownership of backend services.
- Uses AI-assisted tools effectively in development workflow (e.g., Copilot, Cursor) and reads technical documentation proactively.