Software Engineering Intern, Frontend

Moon • Glendale, CA

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

The home services field runs on iPads. Technicians use our Capacitor/Ionic app on-site — often with intermittent connectivity, gloved hands, and zero patience for broken UI. As the Frontend Engineering Intern, you’ll build the interfaces those users depend on. This is not a project-based internship with a demo at the end. You’ll own a real feature module, submit code for real review, and ship to production users before your internship ends.

You’ll work in two environments simultaneously: a React web application for desktop users and a Capacitor/Ionic app wrapped around the same codebase for iPad. Understanding where web code behaves differently inside a native wrapper isn’t optional — it’s part of the job from day one.

You’ll join the engineering team and pair closely with a dedicated mentor throughout the program. The mentor relationship is structured — not ad-hoc — with weekly 1:1s, live code review sessions, and pair programming on the areas where you’re ramping.
The engineering bar for your PRs is the same bar applied to the full-time team. Mentorship is how we help you meet it — not a reason to lower it.
We expect 3 days on-site in Glendale, with flexibility around your academic schedule. Fully remote is not offered.
AI-assisted development is the default here. You’ll be working alongside engineers who use Cursor, Copilot, and Claude as primary tools, and you’re expected to come in already working that way.
The tech stack is iPad-first. Capacitor and Ionic are highly desired context — they’re the runtime your code ships into.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of React — you’ve built something real with it, even if it’s a side project or class assignment.
• JavaScript or TypeScript; TypeScript strongly preferred (the codebase is fully typed).
• Solid understanding of how the browser works: the DOM, event handling, the network layer, and why things fail in ways that feel random but aren’t.
• Active, habitual AI tool usage — not occasional ChatGPT pastes, but a real workflow with specific tools you can describe and defend. This is evaluated explicitly.
• Clear written communication: in PRs, in async standups, and when you’re stuck — you write before you ask.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Ionic, Capacitor, React Native, or any mobile-web hybrid framework.
• Component testing with React Testing Library, Vitest, Jest, or similar.
• Experience consuming REST APIs from a frontend.
• Exposure to accessibility standards (WCAG) or responsive design for touch-first interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend React + Capacitor/Ionic UI components following the team’s established patterns and design system.
• Own at least one defined feature module end-to-end: from design spec through code review and into production.
• Implement UI for the iPad Capacitor app — understanding how web-layer code behaves differently inside a native wrapper is part of the scope.
• Handle real frontend constraints: offline state management, loading and error boundaries, form validation, and responsive layouts under field conditions.
• Wire up new API endpoints — read .NET API contracts and build the client-side layer on top of them.
• Write component-level unit and integration tests alongside every feature — untested UI does not ship.
• Give and receive feedback in code review from day one; you are a participant, not an observer.
• Use AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) to accelerate component generation, refactoring, and code review preparation — AI-assisted development is your default mode, not an occasional tool.
• Document component behavior and UI patterns as part of the standard definition of done.

Benefits

• Competitive hourly compensation, tiered by experience (undergraduate and graduate rates; details shared during the process).
• A dedicated mentor on the team — structured weekly 1:1s, live pair programming, and code review guidance throughout the program.
• Work that ships — features you build will go to production users during the internship.
• Real code review under the same standards applied to the full-time team — not the kind that approves everything.
• AI tooling stipend (Cursor Pro, Claude Pro, or equivalent) — the AI-native expectation is real; we remove the financial barrier to getting there.
• Priority consideration for full-time roles upon graduation.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed