Frontend Engineering Intern

About us:

Trade publications cover construction, healthcare and manufacturing, with newsletters and events. Most reporters cover more than one beat.

About the role:

Remote full stack internship on the Growth Engineering team. You will take designs from Figma and turn them into working, responsive pages. Remote position. Most of the team is in Calgary, but nobody is required to come in. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async.

Responsibilities:

• Update content and plugins on the WordPress marketing site
• Check pages with Lighthouse and fix accessibility issues such as missing alt text and low contrast
• Test forms and checkout flows before each release and log issues in Jira
• Convert Figma designs into responsive pages using React, HTML, CSS and Tailwind
• Keep a short daily log in Notion of what you worked on and where you got stuck
• Set up basic SEO tags, sitemaps and redirects when new pages go live
• Push code to GitHub through feature branches and pull requests
• Connect frontend screens to REST APIs and handle loading and error states properly

Requirements:

• Based in Canada for the duration of the internship
• Available for the full internship period
• Basic Git: cloning, branching, committing and opening a pull request
• Portfolio, GitHub or live project links showing at least two websites you built
• Laptop that can run Node.js and VS Code smoothly, and a stable internet connection
• Hands-on practice with React or Angular through projects or coursework
• Clear written English for Slack updates and ticket comments

What you get out of it:

• How to work from Figma handoffs and talk to designers about edge cases
• Certificate, letter of recommendation and flexible hours during exams
• Proper Git workflow with branches, reviews and release tags
• Writing frontend code that other people can read and maintain

Duration: 10-12 weeks

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $23.00 - $27.50 an hour

What we offer:

• Learning and development stipend
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Paid sick time

Duration: 10-12 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Prairie Media Inc..