Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)

Whatnot is a live shopping platform for buying, selling, and discovering products across categories including trading cards, fashion, electronics, and live plants. The Software Engineer Intern will work on cross-functional teams during a 12–16 week hybrid internship, contributing code and ideas to platform challenges and future engineering initiatives. Projects may include developing live-stream features, scaling buyer and seller flows, and building systems for a high-trust marketplace experience.

What you'll do:

• 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

What they're looking for:

• Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our New York City or San Francisco or hubs during the internship
• 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 2027 or by Summer 2028
• 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

Benefits:

• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Housing & Relocation Stipend
• Flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs
• Hybrid internship with in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection