Backend Engineer Intern at Zenskar

Your primary roles and responsibilities will evolve over time as your experience and comfort with the product grows. These will include:

• Taking full ownership of building third party integrations with our product
• Understanding code quality, maintainability, modularity and scalability
• Breaking down large tasks into independent smaller chunks
• Writing well tested code to ensure rapid iteration
• Communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand their points of view and to discuss your own ideas
• Basic understanding of frontend development is a plus.

Key qualifications

• Capable of building the backend part of web applications with minimal guidance
• Basic experience with GET & POST APIs is required. Having used any API in the past is a plus.
• Good at Python. Knowledge of Python frameworks like Django or FastAPI is a plus.
• Comfortable with linux, setting up servers, installing packages, shell scripting, etc
• Familiarity with docker and cloud computing (AWS/GCP/etc) is a plus
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Self driven individual with high ownership and strong work ethic
• Good communication skills
• Not taking yourself too seriously :)