Product Engineering Intern

About the role

We are building a marketplace for rare coins and precious metals. Physical coins are made of Gold, Silver, Platinum, and palladium. The industry is archaic and largely offline, and we aim to bring transparency, liquidity, and simplicity.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship product features using TypeScript, Next.js, and PostgreSQL.
• Work on marketplace features like product pages, order flows, seller tools, buyer experiences, and internal dashboards.
• Turn product, design, and operational needs into simple, reliable software.
• Improve internal tools used for accounting, logistics, operations, fraud review, monitoring, and marketplace management.
• Work with engineers, designers, and operators to understand problems, shape solutions, and ship quickly.
• Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews.
• Debug issues, improve performance, and help make our systems more reliable.
• Learn how marketplace infrastructure works, including order books, auctions, payments, reconciliation, and data integrity.
• Contribute to projects that directly impact customers, sellers, and internal teams.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or have equivalent practical experience.
• Have experience building software through internships, school, open source, hackathons, startups, or personal projects.
• Comfortable with JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Interested in product engineering and excited to work across frontend, backend, databases, and user-facing product experiences.
• Have some experience with React, Next.js, Node.js, SQL, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies.
• Can break down ambiguous problems and ask good questions.
• Self-driven and eager to learn in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Care about building useful products, writing quality code, and shipping quickly.
• Enjoy thinking about how real users interact with the tools you build.
• Experience building marketplace, fintech, trading, or e-commerce products.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Go, Python, or backend systems.
• Experience working with design systems, component libraries, or Tailwind CSS.
• Interest in financial markets, collectibles, rare coins, precious metals, or alternative assets.
• Experience building side projects or contributing to open source.
• Real ownership over meaningful product and engineering projects.

Qualifications

• Direct mentorship from the founding and engineering team.
• Exposure to frontend, backend, database, marketplace, product, and operations systems.
• A fast-moving startup environment where interns can make a visible impact.
• Flexible work arrangements: remote, hybrid, or in-office in Los Angeles.
• Daily lunches for in-office team members.
• Potential opportunity to return full-time after graduation.

Skills

• Frontend: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
• Backend: TypeScript, Redis, Go, Python, PostgreSQL