Software Engineering Intern (React and NextJS)
// SPECIFICATION & SELECTION PROTOCOL
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24–48 Business Hours
Target Domains
Post-Quantum Cryptography · Distributed Systems · Zero-Trust
Confidentiality Protocol
Applications are routed directly to DecentraSec founders under strict mutual non-disclosure standards.
Location: Karachi / Hyderabad/ Islamabad / Rawalpindi (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Internship
Why Join DecentraSec? We don’t just write code; we engineer zero-trust ecosystems. DecentraSec is a deep-tech systems architecture firm backed by the Ministry of IT & Telecom (MOITT), the Ignite Tech Fund, and incubated at the National Incubation Center Hyderabad (NICH). By joining our team, you will help build defensible infrastructure that secures intellectual property and automates high-stakes workflows across the academic sector.
The Role DecentraSec is seeking a motivated Software Engineering Intern to assist in the frontend development of ScholarMark, our flagship academic pre-submission platform. Currently in institutional beta, ScholarMark is engineered to eliminate the $34B publishing bottleneck by preventing desk rejections via our AI Integrity Layer and securing unpublished research through cryptographic seals.
Working directly under our CTO, you will ensure our frontend architecture is highly responsive, scalable, and ready for enterprise university deployment.
Please note: This is a 4-month unpaid internship designed for skill development, technical mentorship, and fulfilling academic training requirements.
What You Will Do
Frontend Architecture: Write, test, and maintain scalable user interface components using React and Next.js to power the ScholarMark institutional dashboard.
UI Implementation: Collaborate with the engineering lead to translate complex platform requirements into clean, high-performance web interfaces using modern frameworks like Tailwind CSS.
AI-Assisted Workflows: Utilize modern development environments and AI-assisted coding tools to optimize your deployment speed and functionality integration.
What We Are Looking For
Foundational knowledge of frontend development, specifically with React and Next.js.
Familiarity with modern CSS frameworks and responsive design principles.
A GitHub profile, personal portfolio, or live projects demonstrating your ability to build frontend functionality.
Based in the Islamabad/Rawalpindi region to allow for strategic team alignment.
What We Offer
Direct, 1-on-1 technical mentorship from an experienced systems architect.
Hands-on experience building a live enterprise software product with active institutional users.
An official Letter of Recommendation and a Completion Certificate from a government-backed technology firm upon successful conclusion of the program.
Equal Opportunity Employer At DecentraSec, we are committed to maintaining an inclusive culture where builders from all backgrounds are empowered to excel.
To Apply: Please submit your resume along with a link to your GitHub profile or a live coding project.
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05 // NEWS & MILESTONES · COMPANY DISPATCHES
Latest Updates & Strategic Milestones.
News, institutional pilot rollouts, and engineering milestones from the DecentraSec core team.
06 // RESEARCH & DISPATCHES · EDITORIAL ARCHIVE
From The Engineering & Research Team.
Deep-dive analyses, cryptanalysis papers, post-quantum protocols, and zero-trust systems design.
Verifiable Research Integrity: Provenance & Data Custody
The scholarly record is now a supply-chain dependency for pharma, materials, AI, and policy — and its incoming inspection has failed. Institutions that cannot prove custody of their data will lose the standing to earn trust with it. This brief argues that compliance documentation asserts integrity while decentralized provenance proves it, and that research integrity is no longer a policy to subscribe to but an infrastructure to procure, pilot, and validate.
Peer Review Crisis? It's a Research Infrastructure Problem
More than eight million papers now enter a peer review system that can't verify who validated what. The fix is verifiable triage: identity-backed reviewers, screening at ingest, and audit-ready provenance—installed at the institutional layer, not bolted onto editorial software.
Provenance Before Trust: Research Integrity Infrastructure
Peer-review overload, AI-reviewer attacks, paper mills, sovereignty exposure, and replication failure trace to one root cause: no tamper-evident integrity infrastructure. This brief shows why provenance must precede institutional trust—and what first movers can do before regulators mandate it.
07 // INSTITUTIONAL INTAKE · STRATEGIC ONBOARDING
Formal Onboarding & Strategic Inquiries.
DecentraSec works with universities, institutional investors, Tier-1 peer reviewers, and Open Access contributors through a structured intake process.
INTAKE VERIFICATION PROTOCOL
All submissions are encrypted at rest and routed directly to DecentraSec core engineering officers under a strict mutual non-disclosure protocol.
DIRECT HEADQUARTERS
A-201, Block-12, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Karachi, Pakistan
INSTITUTIONAL INQUIRIES
partners@decentrasec.comDIRECT INSTITUTIONAL LINE
+92 310 1288813