Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)
About the role
We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to join us for a 12–16 week hybrid internship during Summer 2027. Our interns work in cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams enabling you to directly impact the direction of our platform. Your code and ideas will contribute to solving some of the most complex technical challenges we face today and define future engineering initiatives.
Some sample projects you might work on:
- Building new features for users in our live-streams
- Implementing growth tactics and strategies to scale our buyer and seller flows
- Building systems at scale that help us deliver a high-trust marketplace experience
By the end of your internship, you will have contributed to one of the fastest-growing marketplaces ever while gaining core industry skills in project ideation, management, and collaboration.
You
People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.
As our next Engineering Intern you should have:
- Some industry software engineering experience
- Be pursuing a degree in computer science or a related major, graduating in December 2027 or by Summer 2028
- Problem-solving and out-of-the-box thinking skills
- Willingness to take risks and build product and systems for 1M+ users
- Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
Benefits
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Housing & relocation stipend