Web Development Intern

About Wheatlight:

Our website and apps help renters search listings, schedule tours and submit applications. We ship small changes daily rather than big quarterly releases.

About the role:

Our Frontend team runs the company website, admin panel and a few internal tools. The intern will help on all three. We are headquartered in Almere and have been hiring remotely since 2020. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Almere team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

What you'll do:

• Attend sprint planning and the twice-weekly standup over Google Meet
• 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
• Update content and plugins on the WordPress marketing site
• Build reusable UI components and add them to the shared component library
• 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
• Fix layout bugs across Chrome, Safari and Firefox, and on small mobile screens

What we're looking for:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026 or 2027
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Understanding of how APIs, JSON and HTTP status codes work
• Willing to learn new tools quickly and ask questions when blocked
• Solid basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript (ES6)
• Clear written English for Slack updates and ticket comments

Nice to have:

• Any freelance web work for paying clients
• Projects deployed on Vercel, Netlify or Render

What you'll learn:

• Strong interns get a full-time offer or a paid extension
• Proper Git workflow with branches, reviews and release tags
• You will push code that goes live on a site with real traffic

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $41.50 - $54.00 an hour

What we offer:

• Flexible hours
• Final presentation to leadership
• Learning and development stipend

We are not working with agencies on this role.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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