Product Engineering Intern

Summary

Pure is building the future of rare coin and precious metal trading, focusing on transparency, liquidity, and trust. They are seeking a Product Engineering Intern to work closely with various teams to build features across their marketplace, contributing to real projects that impact customers and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship product features using TypeScript, Next.js, and PostgreSQL
• Work on marketplace features like product pages, order flows, seller tools, buyer experiences, and internal dashboards
• Turn product, design, and operational needs into simple, reliable software
• Improve internal tools used for accounting, logistics, operations, fraud review, monitoring, and marketplace management
• Work with engineers, designers, and operators to understand problems, shape solutions, and ship quickly
• Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews
• Debug issues, improve performance, and help make our systems more reliable
• Learn how marketplace infrastructure works, including order books, auctions, payments, reconciliation, and data integrity
• Contribute to projects that directly impact customers, sellers, and internal teams

Skills

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or have equivalent practical experience
• Have experience building software through internships, school, open source, hackathons, startups, or personal projects
• Comfortable with JavaScript or TypeScript
• Interested in product engineering and excited to work across frontend, backend, databases, and user-facing product experiences
• Have some experience with React, Next.js, Node.js, SQL, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies
• Can break down ambiguous problems and ask good questions
• Self-driven and eager to learn in a fast-moving startup environment
• Care about building useful products, writing quality code, and shipping quickly
• Enjoy thinking about how real users interact with the tools you build
• Experience building marketplace, fintech, trading, or e-commerce products
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Go, Python, or backend systems
• Experience working with design systems, component libraries, or Tailwind CSS
• Interest in financial markets, collectibles, rare coins, precious metals, or alternative assets
• Experience building side projects or contributing to open source

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or have equivalent practical experience
• Have experience building software through internships, school, open source, hackathons, startups, or personal projects
• Comfortable with JavaScript or TypeScript
• Interested in product engineering and excited to work across frontend, backend, databases, and user-facing product experiences
• Have some experience with React, Next.js, Node.js, SQL, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies
• Can break down ambiguous problems and ask good questions
• Self-driven and eager to learn in a fast-moving startup environment
• Care about building useful products, writing quality code, and shipping quickly
• Enjoy thinking about how real users interact with the tools you build

Nice to Haves

• Experience building marketplace, fintech, trading, or e-commerce products
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Go, Python, or backend systems
• Experience working with design systems, component libraries, or Tailwind CSS
• Interest in financial markets, collectibles, rare coins, precious metals, or alternative assets
• Experience building side projects or contributing to open source

Benefits

• Real ownership over meaningful product and engineering projects.
• Direct mentorship from the founding and engineering team.
• Exposure to frontend, backend, database, marketplace, product, and operations systems.
• A fast-moving startup environment where interns can make a visible impact.
• Flexible work arrangements: remote, hybrid, or in-office in Los Angeles.
• Daily lunches for in-office team members.
• Potential opportunity to return full-time after graduation.