A motivated and curious Backend Developer Intern with at least 1 year of experience who is eager to learn, collaborate, and contribute to building scalable back-end systems. You should be detail-oriented, a good team player, and comfortable working in an Agile environment. Strong problem-solving skills, willingness to take initiative, and the ability to follow engineering best practices are essential. What You Will Be Doing Supporting the development and maintenance of reliable, scalable back-end services. Assisting in building server-side logic using Node.js, Python, or Java. Helping create reusable back-end components and small services within service-oriented or microservices architectures. Contributing to RESTful or GraphQL API development, testing, and documentation. Working with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB): writing basic queries, assisting with schema updates, and supporting data integrity. Participating in debugging, log analysis, and performance improvements. Supporting basic DevOps tasks including Docker usage and learning CI/CD workflows. Collaborating with senior engineers through code reviews, stand-ups, and documentation. Continuously learning and gradually taking ownership of more complex tasks. Bonus Points for Familiarity with API design and optimisation Microservices or service-oriented architectures Docker or containerisation concepts Performance monitoring tools Basic DevOps workflows Educational Requirement Completed 3-year Diploma or Degree with Computer Science or Information Systems as a Major. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Backend Developer Intern
CHRONO EFFICIENT
johannesburg, johannesburg
Published 14 days ago
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