Full Stack Engineer - Backend Strong (Financial Housing Literacy - Gaming & Education) 🚀
Unpaid 4-month internship (with potential to become paid part/full-time) at Nest Navigate, a consumer platform for homebuyer financial readiness. The engineer builds full-stack features — React front end, Node.js-style backend APIs and data systems — plus game-like learning modules using Phaser, iterating quickly with the founding team on a live product.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Boston; Los Angeles; New York City; Texas; San Francisco
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Intern
- Employment
- Internship
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong fundamentals in JavaScript and React
- Passion for gaming
- Interest in building consumer-facing products
- Ability to move quickly and take ownership
- Comfortable working in an early-stage, sometimes ambiguous environment
Nice to have
- Experience with game development, animations, or interactive UI
Full description
Compensation: 0.1% – 0.3%
Nest Navigate is a consumer platform focused on improving homebuyer readiness before users enter the lending and real estate process. We sit upstream in the funnel, helping users build confidence and make better financial decisions before they engage with lenders. www.nestnavigate.com
We are beta, early generating revenue, and actively working with partners across lending, brokerage, and lead generation.
This is an early-stage environment with real product, real users, and real iteration cycles.
Role Overview
We’re looking for a software engineer intern who wants to work directly on a live product and ship quickly. We are regularly testing different games to improve homebuyer readiness and lift for our pre-homebuyers.
You will be working closely with the founding team and engineering leadership to build and iterate on core features across the platform. This is not a passive internship — you’ll be expected to contribute meaningfully.
Compensation
This is currently a 4 month unpaid internship where we would like to see this go to PT or FT paid with strong equity.
What You’ll Work On
Build and ship features across the front-end (React) and backend systems
Contribute to interactive product experiences (including game-like modules using Phaser)
Help improve performance, responsiveness, and usability across the platform
Work on onboarding flows, user progression systems, and engagement loops
Collaborate with product, design, and marketing teams to iterate quickly
Tech Stack
Frontend: React
Interactive Modules: Phaser (2D gameplay elements)
Backend: APIs and data systems (Node.js or similar)
Tools: Notion, Slack, Git
What We’re Looking For
Strong fundamentals in JavaScript and React
Passion for gaming
Interest in building consumer-facing products
Ability to move quickly and take ownership
Comfortable working in an early-stage, sometimes ambiguous environment
Bonus: experience with game development, animations, or interactive UI
Why This Role
Work directly on a live product, not side projects
High ownership and visibility into product decisions
Exposure to startup building, product iteration, and real user feedback
Opportunity to grow into a full-time role based on performance
We offer:
Real product experience