Software Engineer Intern: Real Projects, Onsite DC

State Affairs, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

State Affairs, Inc. invites aspiring software engineers to join our Washington, DC team as a Software Engineering Intern.

You will work across the full stack—React/Next.js interfaces, Node APIs, and Postgres data models—shipping real features for real users in a fast-paced environment. You will prototype semantic-search UIs with vector embeddings and help build real-time collaboration features while aligning with design and product on scoping, dashboards, and feature flags.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor’s or graduate degree in computer science, computer engineering or 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 similar frontend framework) and Node.js (or another backend language).
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational database design (e.g., Postgres).
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Ship vertical product slices with your 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 our 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.

Education

Bachelor’s or graduate degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Next.js

TypeScript

MongoDB

Docker

AWS

PostgreSQL

Job description

State Affairs, Inc. invites aspiring software engineers to join our Washington, DC team as a Software Engineering Intern.

You will work across the full stack—React/Next.js interfaces, Node APIs, and Postgres data models—shipping real features for real users in a fast-paced environment. You will prototype semantic-search UIs with vector embeddings and help build real-time collaboration features while aligning with design and product on scoping, dashboards, and feature flags.