Integration Developer Internship - Payments, Partnerships & Restaurant Systems

Summary

ZOVU is building an integrated restaurant operating system covering point of sale, reservations, loyalty, staff planning, and customer experiences. This three-month internship combines hands-on integration development with partner development and negotiation, including building API integrations, establishing partner relationships, negotiating proposed terms, and turning partnerships into working connections.

Responsibilities

• Develop API clients and integration services using TypeScript and Node.js
• Connect ZOVU with payment, accounting, ordering, delivery, and other restaurant platforms
• Implement webhook handling, authentication, data mapping, and synchronization
• Handle rate limits, retries, duplicate events, timeouts, and expired credentials
• Track integration failures and build recovery procedures
• Test provider behavior, document limitations, and prepare integrations for release
• Research potential partners and assess their relevance to restaurant customers
• Contact partnership and technical teams to explore integration opportunities
• Lead discovery calls covering API access, capabilities, onboarding, and support
• Negotiate proposed integration fees, transaction pricing, revenue-sharing arrangements, and other relevant commercial terms, with founder guidance
• Coordinate sandbox access, technical documentation, testing, and launch requirements
• Maintain a clear partner pipeline with next steps, dependencies, and agreed responsibilities
• Present recommendations that balance customer value, engineering effort, ongoing costs, and partner support

Skills

• We are looking for someone with prior practical experience who can work across technical and commercial conversations
• You should be comfortable implementing an API, speaking with a potential partner, and explaining what an integration would require from both sides
• Ideally, you have one to two years of relevant experience , or equivalent substantial freelance, startup, or independently delivered project work
• At least one third-party integration you personally delivered beyond a basic tutorial
• Working knowledge of TypeScript, Node.js, HTTP, REST APIs, JSON, and webhooks
• Experience with authentication, secrets, relational databases, and testing
• An understanding of how retries and duplicate events can affect payments or business records
• Experience speaking directly with clients, vendors, or external technical teams
• Confidence discussing pricing, scope, responsibilities, and trade-offs professionally
• Strong written and spoken English
• The ability to manage follow-ups, document decisions, and work independently
• You do need the initiative to start conversations and the judgment to recognize when a technical or commercial decision needs founder input
• The internship lasts three months, with a target commitment of 32 hours per week
• Please state your actual availability when applying
• We work remotely and primarily asynchronously
• Partner-facing work also requires occasional scheduled calls across time zones
• Payment gateways, accounting software, delivery platforms, or restaurant technology
• OAuth, queues, reconciliation, idempotency, and scheduled synchronization
• PostgreSQL and Prisma
• Vendor evaluation, business development, procurement, or partnership negotiation
• Provider certification, sandbox testing, or coordinated integration launches

Qualifications

Must Haves

• We are looking for someone with prior practical experience who can work across technical and commercial conversations
• You should be comfortable implementing an API, speaking with a potential partner, and explaining what an integration would require from both sides
• Ideally, you have one to two years of relevant experience , or equivalent substantial freelance, startup, or independently delivered project work
• At least one third-party integration you personally delivered beyond a basic tutorial
• Working knowledge of TypeScript, Node.js, HTTP, REST APIs, JSON, and webhooks
• Experience with authentication, secrets, relational databases, and testing
• An understanding of how retries and duplicate events can affect payments or business records
• Experience speaking directly with clients, vendors, or external technical teams
• Confidence discussing pricing, scope, responsibilities, and trade-offs professionally
• Strong written and spoken English
• The ability to manage follow-ups, document decisions, and work independently
• You do need the initiative to start conversations and the judgment to recognize when a technical or commercial decision needs founder input
• The internship lasts three months, with a target commitment of 32 hours per week
• Please state your actual availability when applying
• We work remotely and primarily asynchronously
• Partner-facing work also requires occasional scheduled calls across time zones

Nice to Haves

• Payment gateways, accounting software, delivery platforms, or restaurant technology
• OAuth, queues, reconciliation, idempotency, and scheduled synchronization
• PostgreSQL and Prisma
• Vendor evaluation, business development, procurement, or partnership negotiation
• Provider certification, sandbox testing, or coordinated integration launches

Benefits

• Remote work with a primarily asynchronous working environment
• Meaningful integration and partnership work with technical review and direct founder involvement in negotiations