Upstox – 5 Intern Jobs for freshers 2026 Internship

Upstox is hiring for 5 exciting intern roles for freshers in 2026, offering opportunities in software development, data analytics, product design, cybersecurity, and DevOps. Apply now to kickstart your career with one of India’s fastest-growing fintech companies. Check eligibility, job details, stipend, and application process here.

About Company :

Upstox is one of India’s leading fintech and online investment platforms, empowering millions of users to invest and trade confidently in stocks, mutual funds, F&O, commodities, and other financial instruments. Founded with the mission to make investing simple, affordable, and accessible to everyone, Upstox provides secure and user-friendly tools built on cutting-edge technology. With a rapidly growing customer base and strong backing from renowned investors including Ratan Tata, the company has emerged as a major force in India’s digital investment ecosystem.

Job Role 1 : SDE Backend Intern

As an SDE Backend Intern at Upstox, you will be working on building and maintaining backend services that power Upstox’s trading and investing applications. Key aspects include backend development, API design, database work, performance optimization, and collaborating with other engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Solve complex engineering problems by applying solid software-engineering principles. Develop, maintain, and optimize backend services using frameworks and tools (e.g. Java + Spring Boot + REST APIs).

• Work on database interactions: SQL/NoSQL, data storage, data retrieval optimizations.

• Participate in code reviews, collaborate with other developers, and help ensure code quality and system reliability.

• Integrate new tools/technologies/methodologies to improve backend systems — performance, scalability, maintainability.

• Work on real fintech-product features (scale, reliability, security) — backend for trading/investment flows, user data management, API services.

Essentially — you’ll get hands-on backend engineering experience on production-grade applications used by many users across India.

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Job Role 2 : AI Engineering Intern

As an AI Engineering Intern at Upstox, you may be expected to:

• Work on real engineering problems: apply sound engineering and computer-science principles to solve complex problems relevant to AI/ML, data processing, or backend systems.

• Collaborate on building or integrating AI/ML models or features: contribute to AI-oriented projects within the product stack (for example, features related to recommendations, predictive analytics, data-driven trading- or investment-tools, back-end algorithms, etc.).

• Innovate and adopt new technologies/libraries/methodologies: part of the role’s expectation is to stay updated with modern tools and apply them to craft efficient, scalable solutions.

• Possibly assist in data-handling, evaluation, testing, or deployment of AI/ML features — depending on project needs. (Common in intern roles for AI/ML engineering; Upstox’s broad ‘engineering internship’ scope supports such tasks.)

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Job Role 3 : Data Science Intern

Key Responsibilities & What You Might Do as Data Science Intern

As a Data Science Intern at Upstox, your likely tasks would include:

• Participate in data analysis & modeling projects — analyze large data sets to draw business insights or user-behavior patterns.

• Support the engineering/product team to leverage ML / statistical methods to solve business problems (e.g. trading-platform data, user engagement, risk/usage analytics) when required.

• Work on data pipelines, data cleaning, data preprocessing — ensure data quality and readiness for analysis/measures. (Commonly expected in data-intern roles; Upstox description asks interns to “engage in impactful data-analysis projects” with dynamic engineering teams.)

• Collaborate with other teams (engineering, product, operations) to understand data needs and deliver insights/reports.

• Possibly assist in building or refining internal dashboards, performance metrics, or user-product analytics tracking — to support strategic or operational decisions.

• Learn from experienced engineers/data scientists and get exposure to impact-oriented data work — a good opportunity for hands-on learning in fintech/data domain.

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Job Role 4 : Product Design Intern

Here are the common tasks and responsibilities associated with the role:

• Design Interfaces & Experiences — Create wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and polished visual designs for web/mobile app features.

• UX / UI Work — Work on user flows and journeys to make complex fintech/trading tasks simple, usable, and intuitive for users.

• Feature Design / Improvement — Contribute to new features or refine existing ones based on product goals, user feedback, and research/data insights.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration — Work with product managers, developers, UX researchers — participate in brainstorming, design reviews, handoffs to engineering, and iteration cycles.

• User & Data-Driven Design — Use user research, analytics, feedback and data to inform design decisions; understand real user problems in the fintech/trading domain.

• Rapid Iteration & Execution — In a fast-paced environment, iterate quickly, refine, and ship designs at scale.

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Job Role 5 : SDE Intern

As an SDE Intern at Upstox, you will join a fast-paced engineering team to design, develop, test, optimize, and scale backend and frontend systems. You will be involved in the full software development lifecycle — from requirement analysis to deployment. The role demands strong problem-solving abilities, programming expertise, and an interest in financial technology products.

Collaborate with engineering teams to understand product requirements and technical specifications
Design and build efficient, scalable, and reusable software solutions
Develop clean, maintainable, and production-ready code using industry best practices
Debug, optimize, and improve existing application performance and reliability
Participate in code reviews, unit testing, and documentation
Work on real-time systems with low latency and high concurrency
Integrate APIs and microservices into platform features
Continuously explore new technologies and propose improvements to enhance the platform
Work closely with mentors/senior engineers for guidance and feedback

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