Software Engineering Intern

The Opportunity

Guild is hiring a Software Engineering Intern. Guild is building the infrastructure that helps working adults access affordable education and coaching, changing the trajectory of their careers. This summer, you will join our engineering team for a 12-week internship (June 1 through August 21, 2026) and work on real problems that affect real people. You will ship code that reaches members and partners, collaborate with a team that cares deeply about craft, and develop your engineering judgment in an environment where AI-native development workflows are the default. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, including university, bootcamp, and self-taught, who can demonstrate strong fundamentals and a track record of building things. Strong performers will be considered for a full-time Associate Engineer role at the end of the summer.

This internship requires three days per week in-office at our Denver headquarters (parking and lunch are subsidized). If you’re not based in the Denver metro area but are still interested, a modest stipend will be available to help offset housing and travel costs. This role is not open to candidates on F1 or OPT Visa’s. 

Here are the outcomes you will be expected to achieve:

• Deliver meaningful end-to-end features and improvements, from understanding the problem through design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Develop practical fluency with Guild's core stack (Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React, AWS, PostgreSQL, GraphQL) by contributing to production code.
• Build effective working relationships within your team, contributing to a collaborative environment and resolving ambiguity constructively.
• Demonstrate judgment in your use of AI coding tools, critically evaluating output, and applying your technical reasoning and problem understanding.

Here is what you will do in this role to achieve these outcomes:

• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, including reviewing and verifying AI-assisted output and handling edge cases and errors gracefully.
• Participate in agile ceremonies such as standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, aligning on goals and contributing your perspective to the team.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to build products that are intuitive and solve problems for our users and our business.
• Monitor operational data for your team's domain and use that information to suggest and implement improvements.
• Create and maintain accurate documentation for your work, ensuring knowledge is shared effectively within the team.
• Seek feedback proactively and demonstrate a growth mindset by addressing areas for improvement throughout the internship.

You are probably a strong candidate for this role if you have:

• Built something because you saw a problem worth solving, not just because it was assigned, whether in a class project, personal project, or internship.
• Practiced using AI coding tools (such as GitHub Copilot or Claude) in your development workflows to understand how to collaborate with AI.
• Debugged a tricky issue in someone else's code or an unfamiliar codebase and can walk through how you approached it and what you learned.
• Worked on a team project where you had to communicate trade-offs or technical decisions to people with different levels of technical background.

Here are the skills and competencies you have that will be needed to achieve the expected outcomes:

• Technical foundation: familiarity with at least one programming language (Python or JavaScript preferred) and experience with web development frameworks or libraries.
• Debugging ability: a systematic approach to diagnosing issues, writing tests, and tracing through logic to verify correctness, including in AI-generated code.
• Systems thinking: the ability to reason about how components fit together (APIs, databases, services, deployment pipelines) and how changes in one area affect others.
• Communication: strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to write clear documentation and adapt your message for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ownership and resourcefulness: you take initiative when stuck, ask good questions, and treat ambiguity as something to resolve rather than wait out.
• Business curiosity: an interest in how software decisions connect to user outcomes and business goals, with the instinct to ask 'why' before 'how'.

Posting Date: March 20, 2026

*This role will remain open for a minimum of 3 days.