Software Engineer Intern

About Mobbin

Our mission is to empower the world to design great digital experiences.

The Mobbin platform helps product designers, product managers and UI/UX researchers find highly-relevant references to their design problems. We are the world's most extensive app design reference library, serving over a million users on our platform.

Since our inception in 2018, we've grown tremendously via word-of-mouth. Today, Mobbin is used by most design-forward companies and startups, including Duolingo, Revolut, Headspace, Work & Co, Blinkist, and more.

Read more about who we are: https://careers.mobbin.com

The role

The Mobbin platform serves over a million inspiration-seekers across the world and handles millions of API requests daily daily.

We are hiring a software engineer intern to join one of our cross-functional teams. You will be assigned to a team based on your interest and suitability assessed during the interviews.

• The Product Team is responsible for deepening the value for our customers and bringing delight to our users.
• The Growth Team is responsible for optimising key metrics for the company, such as acquisition, retention, engagement, and monetisation.
• The ML Team is responsible for the research and development of production-ready ML models and development of cutting edge internal tools.
  
  

As a software engineer intern at any teams in Mobbin, you will be responsible for delivering high value features or improvements. No intern works on non-essential projects.

Our Engineering Department, whilst small, provides the technological capability that turn our ideas into software that drives global impact at scale. We take great care to balance the need for stable technologies yet exercise tact in choosing cutting edge technologies that pays forward to our long term goals.

What you'll do...

• Plan and implement high-quality and provably reliable software that scales, including writing tests and documentation, with decreasing supervision over time.
• Work closely with team members of other domains (for example: product designers, ML engineers) to drive decisions whilst balancing engineering and business needs. For example, collaborating extensively with other stakeholders to refine and polish a feature iteratively.
• Leave our codebase and infrastructure better than you found it. For example, by identifying areas of codebase that can use improvements and executing on suggestions for better developer experience, performance, or otherwise.
• Clearly propose and articulate your technical decisions and the trade-offs incurred. You will need to get the buy-in from fellow engineers and build rapport with them.
• Ramp up on best practices and reasonably apply them. Perpetuate a healthy software engineering culture through code reviews, sharing, or otherwise.
• Build product features that are across the stack.
  
  

You should...

• Have a high bar for code quality. Be familiar with software engineering best practices and be able to write clean, reliable and well-documented code with minimal supervision.
• Believe that documentation, communication and measuring feature success is part of shipping.
• Have moderate experience working with strongly-typed language(s).
• Be proficient in frontend technologies.
• Be moderately proficient in Postgres and SQL. You will be working intimately with Postgres and Supabase.
• Have strong computer science fundamentals. You will not pass our technical round if you can barely write a recursive function.
• Have build and deployed user-facing web apps in React.
• Be able to communicate effectively and have good written communication skills.
• Have a strong desire to learn and adapt, by embracing feedback and seeking opportunities for growth.
• [Bonus] Have a strong visual taste and hold a high bar for aesthetics.
  
  

We offer…

• Work life balance
• Flexible work hours
• Small medical claims
• Work from anywhere (Singapore office or Remote)