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Role Details

Title: Engineering Intern

Company: GovSkills

Location: Remote

Salary: $30 - 40/hr

Type: Part-Time, Temporary Jan - May

About the Opportunity

Join GovSkills at an exciting inflection point as we prepare to launch our MVP and onboard our first customers. This internship with GovSkills offers hands-on experience building real features, fixing real bugs, and responding to real user feedback in a fast-paced startup environment.

You'll work directly with our product, engineering and design teams to complete final MVP development, support the initial launch, and help iterate on the product based on early customer feedback.

Who is GovSkills

GovSkills is a civic technology platform that helps people navigate and land public-sector jobs by translating complex government job postings into plain language and matching job seekers to roles based on their skills, not just keywords. Our mission is to make government hiring more accessible, transparent, and human by helping job seekers find roles where they can truly thrive.

Project Overview

Timeline: Spring Semester, January-May 2026

Pre-Launch (2 months): Complete remaining MVP features, conduct testing, and prepare for production deployment

Launch Support (1 month): Monitor system performance, triage and fix bugs, support customer onboarding

Iteration Phase (2 months): Implement improvements based on customer feedback, optimize existing features

What You'll Work On

• Build and refine user-facing features for the GovSkills web application
• Debug and resolve issues identified during testing and early customer use
• Implement UI/UX improvements based on user feedback
• Contribute to data pipelines and backend services supporting core functionality
• Participate in code reviews and collaborative problem-solving sessions
• Attend daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives

Who You Are

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (current junior/senior)
• Enthusiastic about civic technology and making government data more accessible
• Comfortable with ambiguity and eager to learn in a dynamic startup environment
• Collaborative team player who communicates clearly and asks good questions
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to writing clean, maintainable code

What You’ll Gain

• Real-world experience shipping a product and responding to customer needs
• Mentorship from experienced engineers in a startup setting
• Exposure to the full product development lifecycle from build to launch to iteration
• Understanding of how civic tech organizations operate and create impact
• Potential for future opportunities with Citizen Codex/GovSkills

Technical Experience We're Looking For

Required:

• Coursework or project experience centered around web application development
• One of the following:
  • Familiarity with at least one front-end framework like React, Svelte, or similar.
  • Familiarity with authoring backend services using Python or Node.js.
• Basic understanding of version control with Git
• Ability to read and debug existing codebases

Nice to Have:

• Advanced coursework in Machine Learning or Data Science
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization
• Experience using cloud infrastructure
• Contributions to open source projects or personal GitHub portfolio