Engineering Intern

Playo; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 167,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Job summary

Playo in Bengaluru is offering a 6-month full-time engineering internship on-site. Final-year students or recent graduates will own core components, building integrations with venue systems, and developing event-driven microservices with focus on performance and quality.

You'll work on payments-related flows, social features, and front-end interfaces, while maintaining CI pipelines and Docker-based environments, under mentorship in a fast‑growing sports-tech platform.

Qualifications

• Final-year student or recent graduate available for 6-month full-time internship in Bengaluru.
• Strong fundamentals in programming and solid domain knowledge.
• High analytical rigor and focus on quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Build integrations with third-party venue management systems.
• Develop event-driven microservices and asynchronous workers.
• Work on payments, digital wallets, and stored-value systems.
• Own end-to-end vertical slices from backend to UI.
• Maintain automated build pipelines and deployment artifacts.
• Establish telemetry, tracing, and traffic monitoring.

Skills

Programming basics

Analytical mindset

Problem solving

Tools

Docker Compose

Jira

Job description

Playo is a leading global sports activity platform with over 5 million users across 5 countries, connecting players, venues, trainers, and brands in one full-stack ecosystem across 50+ sports. We operate at the intersection of consumer technology, social networking, marketplaces and real-world logistics, and are building a scalable, multi-vertical sports-tech venture with a focus on long-term sustainability and global growth.

The Opportunity:

This engineering internship program offers a compelling environment for developers to solve unsolved, real-world engineering challenges while taking true ownership of core components.

Candidate Profile:

• Final-year students or recent graduates available for a full-time, on-site engagement in Bengaluru.
• Proficiency in programming fundamentals and strong foundational knowledge in your chosen domain.
• High analytical rigor and relentless attention to quality standards. W e focus on core potential and problem-solving capability.
• Duration: 6 Months (Full-time)
• Compensation: Paid Internship
• Building integrations with heterogeneous third-party venue management systems.
• Developing event-driven microservices, message queues, and asynchronous workers.
• Gaining hands-on exposure to transaction lifecycle architecture including payments, digital wallets, and stored-value systems.
• Developing consumer features across discovery, social groups, match histories, and engagement services.
• Optimizing web applications for high performance, server-side rendering, and SEO accessibility.
• Owning end-to-end vertical slice deliverables from backend APIs to responsive user interfaces.
• Maintenance and enhancement of automated build pipelines, container registries, and deployment artifacts.
• Designing reproducible local orchestration environments with Docker Compose for internal engineering teams.
• Establishing telemetry metrics, distributed tracing, and traffic monitoring across microservice routes.
• Standardizing structured logging, request context propagation, and cloud infrastructure cost optimization.
• Formulating test suites covering Android, iOS, web portals, and enterprise management tools.
• Validating mission-critical workflows across financial integrations, bookings , promotional systems, and real-time features.
• Ensuring multi-platform parity and resolving divergence across operating systems.
• Executing staging verification and authoring unambiguous defect reports in Jira to facilitate efficient resolution.