Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern -- Ship Real Features

State Affairs, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 9,000 - 10,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits

Onsite in DC

Job summary

State Affairs, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineering Intern to join our Washington, DC engineering team and ship real features to real users.

You will work across the full stack—React/Next.js interfaces, Node APIs, and Postgres data models—building practical tools for state government data and policy insights. The role emphasizes prototyping AI-assisted workflows, real-time collaboration, and data-driven dashboards.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor’s or graduate degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.
• Expected graduation in December 2027 or May 2028.
• Experience building web applications through coursework, internships, research, hackathons or personal projects.
• Familiarity with React (or a similar frontend framework) and Node.js (or another backend language).
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational database design (e.g., Postgres).
• Authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Ship vertical product slices with mentor and team: Figma wireframe, React component, Node handler, SQL/Mongo query, deployed on AWS via Docker and GitHub Actions.
• Help build fast, delightful data workflows such as instant search, real-time diffing and collaborative annotation, with sub-200 ms interactions over large datasets.
• Work with design and product on thin-slice scoping, experiment flags and measuring customer outcomes.
• Instrument and improve your work with dashboards, structured logs and feature-flag rollouts, and join blameless post-mortems.
• Practice product craftsmanship through Storybook-driven UI, shared design tokens, and code reviews that coach rather than gatekeep.
• Use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) every day to speed up coding and debugging.

Skills

React

Node.js

SQL

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Next.js

TypeScript

MongoDB

Docker

Job description

State Affairs, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineering Intern to join our Washington, DC engineering team and ship real features to real users.

You will work across the full stack—React/Next.js interfaces, Node APIs, and Postgres data models—building practical tools for state government data and policy insights. The role emphasizes prototyping AI-assisted workflows, real-time collaboration, and data-driven dashboards.