Location: Onsite - Kondapur, Hyderabad

Work Schedule: 6 days a week (Saturday WFH)

Shift: 9AM to 6PM

Duration: 4 months, with PPO for top performers

Stipend: ₹20,000/month

About Scale.jobs

Scale.jobs is a career-tech platform providing end-to-end job search assistance to job seekers across the globe, offering Career Coaching (Resume Writing, LinkedIn Optimization, Interview Prep), Human-led Job Finding and Applying, and AI-Tailored Resumes and Cover Letters, combining Human + Technology to get job seekers hired faster and smarter.

About the Role

We're a small team building a modern, high-performance web platform, and we want an engineering intern who ships. You'll work directly with the founding team on features that go to production. No sandbox project, no fake tickets. Within your first couple of weeks you'll be opening PRs against the same codebase everyone else works in, with pairing and code review to get you there. Our stack: Next.js (App Router), React 18, TypeScript, tRPC, Hono, PostgreSQL + Prisma, TanStack Query, Tailwind + Shadcn/Radix, all in a pnpm + Turborepo monorepo.

What you'll actually be doing

• Building real UI in Next.js and React - pages and flows that users touch, not internal demos
• Writing type-safe API routes in tRPC and backend services in Hono
• Touching the database directly: schemas, migrations, and queries in PostgreSQL with Prisma
• Wiring up data fetching and server state with TanStack React Query
• Making things responsive and accessible with Tailwind, Shadcn, and Radix
• Integrating third-party services - Clerk for auth, Stripe for payments
• Adding analytics and logging with PostHog and Axiom
• Chasing down SEO and page-performance wins with the marketing team
• Sitting in on architecture discussions and getting your code reviewed properly - including the parts that are wrong

We'll vibe if you…

• Write TypeScript and know your JavaScript fundamentals cold
• Have built something real in React - a side project, hackathon build, freelance gig, or past internship all count. A deployed link beats a resume line.
• Understand how the web actually works: HTTP, REST, client vs. server, what happens between a request and a response
• Have written SQL and know roughly what a database is doing
• Are comfortable in Git - branches, commits, PRs
• Debug before you ask, and ask clearly when you're actually stuck
• Are fine with priorities changing on a Tuesday because we learned something on Monday

Bonus, not required: Next.js App Router specifically, tRPC or any typed API layer, Prisma, monorepos, Clerk, Stripe, AI integrations (OpenAI, Vercel AI SDK), Docker, AWS S3, SEO or performance work. If you match the main list and none of the bonuses, still apply. The bonus list is what you'll learn here.

What's in it for you

• Production experience on a stack most people only read about in blog posts
• Direct access to the founders - you'll be in the room where product and architecture get decided
• Real code review from engineers who'll tell you when something is wrong and why
• Ownership of features end to end, spec to deploy, with your name on them
• A full-time offer at the end if you're good - that's the actual point of this

Want to Fast-Track Your Profile?

Send your application to hr@scale.jobs with the following:

1. One-liner on yourself, Why do you want this role?
2. GitHub profile or any live project links showcasing your work
3. Resume + Portfolio

Shortlisted candidates will be given a live task:

Build a small full-stack feature using Next.js and tRPC based on a real Scale.jobs brief. Deliver clean, production-ready code with a short write-up on your approach and decisions.