AI-Powered Software Engineer Intern: Ship Real Features

ShopBack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Winning team

Competitive pay

Open culture

Job summary

ShopBack is seeking an AI-focused intern to ship features end-to-end, from design to production, with a mentor guiding you.

You’ll build with AI as a teammate, review outputs, and craft tools or workflows your team will reuse after the internship ends.

We value clean code, solid data structures, APIs, testing, and real-world side projects or freelance work; curiosity and fast learning are essential.

Qualifications

• Fundamentals in clean code, design patterns, data structures, APIs, and testing.
• Built projects outside of class; side projects, hackathons, open source or freelance work count.
• Applied AI beyond chat; built an app on a LLM API or engineered agent workflows.
• Curious and sceptical; you verify AI outputs before relying on them.
• Fast learner and eager to learn new things in a global team.

Responsibilities

• Ship real features end-to-end, from design to production with mentorship.
• Build with AI as a teammate; review, test, and verify agent outputs.
• Create AI tools or workflows that the team will reuse after your internship.
• Measure and evaluate AI-powered work to prove impact.

Skills

Clean code

Design patterns

Data structures

APIs

Testing

AI integration

Side projects

Learning velocity

Tools

TypeScript / Node.js

Postgres

Kafka

Kubernetes

GitLab

Datadog

Claude Code

MCP

Job description

ShopBack is seeking an AI-focused intern to ship features end-to-end, from design to production, with a mentor guiding you.

You’ll build with AI as a teammate, review outputs, and craft tools or workflows your team will reuse after the internship ends.

We value clean code, solid data structures, APIs, testing, and real-world side projects or freelance work; curiosity and fast learning are essential.