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Product Engineering Intern

Pure· Engineering
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Hybrid (Los Angeles, CA)$6k/mo - $10k/moInternPosted 3mo ago

About the role

Product Engineering Intern at Pure, a YC-backed marketplace for rare coins and precious metals. Summer 2027 internship focusing on building real features across the Pure marketplace with exposure to frontend, backend, databases, and operations tools.

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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:TypeScriptNext.jsPostgreSQL

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.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Pure

Marketplace for Rare Coins & Precious Metals

Pure is the first transparent marketplace for the $11B Rare Coins Sector & $55B Precious Metals sector. We make it easy to buy & sell authenticated rare coins and precious metals such as Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium & Rhodium.

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