Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2026)

We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to join us for a 12-16 week hybrid internship during Summer 2026. 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. This opportunity is based in the following locations; Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco or Seattle.

Some sample projects you might work on are:

• 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 of project ideation, management and collaboration.

You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here. As our next Engineering Intern you should have some industry software engineering experience, plus

• Pursuing a degree in computer science or other related major graduating in Dec 2026 or by Summer 2027
• Problem solver and out-of-the-box thinker
• Willing to take risks and build product and systems for 1M+ users
• Ability to pick up on new technologies quickly