Software Engineer Intern

About the Role

At [Employer hidden], our software engineers implement and operate technological solutions to improve the experiences of our restaurants, riders, and consumers. From creating beautiful, user-friendly flows to crafting scalable backend architectures, we strive to deliver reliant, performant technology that delights our customers.

We believe interns are essential to our mission of attracting and retaining top talent. During our 12-week Software Engineer internship, interns are completely immersed in their teams and will have the opportunity to develop, maintain, and ship products. As an intern, you will directly impact our business by collaborating with your team to solve real problems for our customers.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.K. to be considered for this position.

The 2026 internship program will be hosted in person at [Employer hidden]’s London headquarters at Cannon Bridge House.

What you’ll do

• Learn modern, industry-leading product development practices, including how engineers use GenAI-assisted coding and tooling to design, build, and ship real software
• Develop, maintain and ship technical elements with the support of your mentor, manager, and team members
• Act on feedback, coaching, and mentorship from your mentor and team members
• Actively learn about the elements to which you contribute
• Make a direct impact on our business by collaborating with your team to solve problems for our customers
• Participate in intern programming, including leadership speaker sessions, social events, and team activities
• Present your summer learnings during a final presentation at the end of the internship

Expectations

You are pursuing a B.S. or M.S. Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, have no more than 2 years of full-time work experience, and are graduating between Fall 2026 to Summer 2027. You are available for a Summer 2026 start date (Internships are only hosted during the Summer)

You have experience working with databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS, SQL, etc.)

You have a solid understanding of algorithms and data structures

Experience writing web-based applications in any language, and an interest in learning (Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala, or Rust)

You have experience writing clean code, working with version control, and doing unit testing.

Preferred but not expected

At least 1 previous Software Engineering internship or equivalent relevant experience

Ability to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various systems

Excited to develop, release and run large-scale web applications

Experience with solutions for systems monitoring, live deployments, and continuous integration

Experience with real-time technology problems

Experience working with service-oriented architecture, writing APIs, and designing systems.

Participation in project or research-based technical work, hackathons, technical conferences/organization, on-campus student organization leadership, technical teaching assistant roles, relevant extracurricular activities, or other technical experience.