Front End Developer Intern

The Boca Raton Times is a small weekly newspaper with 11 employees. Everyone writes, edits, takes photos and posts to the website. Press credentials and parking are provided.

The internship

Remote full stack internship on the Growth Engineering team. You will take designs from Figma and turn them into working, responsive pages. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Day to day

• Improve page load times by compressing images, lazy loading and trimming unused code
• Build reusable UI components and add them to the shared component library
• Push code to GitHub through feature branches and pull requests
• Attend sprint planning and the twice-weekly standup over Google Meet
• Write simple Express.js routes and MongoDB queries for new features

Requirements

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Able to commit 25 to 40 hours a week for at least 3 months
• Basic Git: cloning, branching, committing and opening a pull request
• Hands-on practice with React or Angular through projects or coursework
• Portfolio, GitHub or live project links showing at least two websites you built

Bonus points

• Basic understanding of SEO and Core Web Vitals
• Any freelance web work for paying clients
• Projects deployed on Vercel, Netlify or Render

What you get out of it

• Writing frontend code that other people can read and maintain
• Proper Git workflow with branches, reviews and release tags
• You will push code that goes live on a site with real traffic

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: $36.00 to $38.00/hr

What we offer

• Company laptop
• Paid sick time
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Mar 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at The Boca Raton Times LLC.