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Trainee Software Developer

Contour Software

Three to three and a half months of training inside a Contour R&D team in Islamabad, working toward building enterprise applications, with a chance of a full-time offer afterwards. Suits CS graduates with solid OOP, Java or C#, data structures, SQL and some frontend and REST API exposure.

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Where

Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi

On-site
Experience

No experience needed

Pay

Pay not stated

Type

Full-time

Posted 14 Sept 2026

What they ask for

JavaC#Data structuresSQLJavaScriptReactREST APIsGit

How Contour Software hires

Recruits continuously and at volume across all three cities, for engineering as well as finance, SQA, HR and IT support. Also posts heavily on Rozee.

  1. 1

    Online assessment

    Online test · Candidate reported

    A screening test sits at the front of the process for most engineering roles.

  2. 2

    HR call

    Recruiter screen · Candidate reported

    Short call covering the role, notice period and expectations.

  3. 3

    Technical interview with the service line

    Technical interview · Candidate reported

    First technical round with the team that owns the product you would work on. Because Contour serves many separate Constellation businesses, the content varies sharply by service line.

  4. 4

    Second technical round with senior team members

    Technical interview · Candidate reported

  5. 5

    HR round on communication and culture fit

    Final HR round · Candidate reported

  6. 6

    Onshore interview

    Senior leadership · Candidate reported

    For many roles the final conversation is with the overseas product team you would be supporting. This is the stage that most often adds weeks to the timeline.

What comes up

Depth in one stack, not breadthWorking with a remote product team
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About the company

The Pakistan division of Constellation Software, staffing engineering, finance, HR and support teams for dozens of the group’s software businesses worldwide. One of the country’s largest single technology employers.

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