Hire API Development Intern: skills, stipend and screening

The three that matter most are REST resource design and HTTP semantics; Status codes used correctly; Pagination, filtering and sorting. Beyond those, look for working familiarity with OpenAPI or Swagger, Postman, Node or Python or Java. Everything else on the list above is teachable inside a term — treating it as an entry requirement shrinks your pool without improving the hire.

Document the undocumented API in OpenAPI and publish it. That is sized for eight to twelve weeks of supervised work by someone with the fundamentals and no production experience. A second, smaller piece — add pagination and rate limiting to the endpoint that returns everything — usually fits alongside it. Anything requiring independent production judgement should stay with the reviewer.

It is the bottom of the working band, and appropriate for a smaller city or a shorter commitment. In Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai or the NCR, expect to be closer to ₹36,000 for the same skills — you are competing with every other employer for the same few candidates. Decide where in the ₹15,000–₹36,000 band you sit before the first interview rather than during the offer call.

Ask about something that went wrong. "When is 400 wrong and 422 right?" gets you hTTP literacy, and two follow-up questions on their own example will tell you the depth. Candidates who have only studied the topic run out of specifics almost immediately.

One finished, reviewed piece of work that someone on the team would otherwise have done — not a side project nobody adopts. The deliverables above are sized for eight to twelve weeks of supervised work by a student with the fundamentals but no production experience. If they can demo it and the team keeps using it after they leave, the hire paid for itself.

No. The posting assistant asks a few short questions — the role, the work, the duration, the stipend — and drafts the description, the title and the skill tags for you. You review and edit everything before it publishes, and you can paste in your own description if you already have one.

Both. The pool covers every major hiring city and hundreds of tier-2 and tier-3 towns, and the role can be posted as remote, hybrid or on-site. For API Development work specifically, remote widens the pool considerably — filter on skill and availability rather than pin code unless the work genuinely requires presence.

First applications typically arrive within about two hours of the listing going live, and most employers hiring a API Development intern have a workable shortlist inside a week. Speed depends more on how specific the brief is than on the stipend — a listing with a named project and named tools consistently outperforms a generic one at the same money.