Frontend Engineering Intern

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Chicago, Illinois and two nearshore delivery centres. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

THE PROGRAM:

Skiffward is hiring a Frontend Engineering Intern for Sep 2027. Remote full stack internship on the Customer Dashboard team. You will take designs from Figma and turn them into working, responsive pages. The company is based in Chicago, the US. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. You will intern remotely with our team in Chicago. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build reusable UI components and add them to the shared component library.
• Connect frontend screens to REST APIs and handle loading and error states properly.
• Check pages with Lighthouse and fix accessibility issues such as missing alt text and low contrast.
• Attend sprint planning and the twice-weekly standup over Google Meet.
• Write simple Express.js routes and MongoDB queries for new features.
• Set up basic SEO tags, sitemaps and redirects when new pages go live.
• Update content and plugins on the WordPress marketing site.
• Convert Figma designs into responsive pages using React, HTML, CSS and Tailwind.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• Available for the full internship period.
• Based in Germany for the duration of the internship.
• Willing to learn new tools quickly and ask questions when blocked.
• Portfolio, GitHub or live project links showing at least two websites you built.
• Clear written English for Slack updates and ticket comments.
• Basic Git: cloning, branching, committing and opening a pull request.
• Understanding of how APIs, JSON and HTTP status codes work.
• Hands-on practice with React or Angular through projects or coursework.

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience with Next.js or TypeScript.

WHAT YOU GET OUT OF IT:

• Certificate, letter of recommendation and flexible hours during exams.
• Writing frontend code that other people can read and maintain.
• You will push code that goes live on a site with real traffic.
• Proper Git workflow with branches, reviews and release tags.

Program dates: Sep 2027, 10-12 weeks.

Pay: €3,400 - €4,800/month

PERKS:

• Certificate of completion.
• Online learning budget.
• Paid public holidays.

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

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