Software Engineer Intern
Software Engineer Intern at ShopBack (San Francisco) who owns a scoped feature from design to production on a shopping rewards and payments platform used by millions. Day-to-day work involves TypeScript/Node.js, Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes while building with AI agents (Claude Code, MCP) and writing evals to verify output.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco, California
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Intern
- Employment
- Internship
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Good programming fundamentals: clean code, design patterns, data structures, APIs, and testing
- Has built things outside of class (side projects, hackathons, open source, freelance work)
- Has applied AI in real projects (e.g. LLM API apps, custom agents, MCP servers, end-to-end automation, evals)
- Curious and skeptical; checks AI output before trusting it
- Fast learner who is comfortable with the unknown and asks good questions
Nice to have
- Built an agent that uses tools, keeps memory, or runs many steps without a human
- Wrote evals or tests to measure AI output improvement
- Shipped something with real users other than yourself
- Deployed a project to a cloud platform
Full description
Our Journey
The ShopBack Group is Asia-Pacific's leading shopping and rewards platform, trusted by over 20 million active members across 13 markets, including Germany and the United States. Driven by the vision to make every day more rewarding, ShopBack saves members money and time with more ways to earn and more to do with what they earn, and empowers merchants and brand partners to effectively engage its members. Founded in Singapore in 2014, ShopBack now powers over US$5.5 billion in annual sales and half a million transactions a day for more than 20,000 online and in-store partners.
As a ShopBack intern, you do real work and deliver real impact. You ship code that goes to production and is used by millions of members all over the world. AI agents are part of how we build every day, so you will orchestrate and build with them from day one.
What You'll Own
- Ship real features. You own a scoped project, from design to production, with a mentor who supports you.
- Build with AI as a teammate. You use coding agents to move fast, and you learn to review, test, and verify what they produce.
- Make AI tools for others. You build a skill, a tool, or an agent workflow that your team keeps using after your internship ends.
- Measure, don't guess. You write evals and tests so you can prove that your AI-powered work is good.
Essentials to Succeed
- You have good fundamentals. You can write clean code, you are familiar with design patterns, and you understand data structures, APIs, and testing.
- You have built things outside of class. Side projects, hackathons, open source, and freelance work all count.
- You have applied AI, not only chatted with it. What have you built? Tell us about an app on an LLM API, a custom agent or MCP server, a boring task you automated end to end, or a simple eval you used to compare prompts or models.
- You stay curious and sceptical. You ask why the AI gave an answer, and you check it before you trust it.
- You learn fast. You are excited to learn new things. You are comfortable when you do not know something yet, and you ask good questions.
Show Us What You Built with AI
Tell us about:
- The coolest one: the thing you are most proud of, or the thing that made people say "wait, how?"
- Or the hardest one: the thing that broke many times before it worked.
For each one, tell us:
- The problem: what you wanted to solve, and why it mattered to you.