Full Stack Engineering Intern

About us

SalesUp is a tech enabled sales company. We put sales on autopilot for B2B companies across channels. The very best companies know this. It’s a LOT of work and tooling that needs to come together to run a successful sales operation . We automate and streamline it all.

About you

• You have strong CS fundamentals. You understand basics of memory, parallelization, runtime from a practical standpoint. ie. you don’t do things like create arrays with 60,000 elements and running out of memory. I speak from experience.
• You are independent and learn quickly and know how to find out answers. Most of what you need to know is online in documentation, chat-gpt, StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, Open-source code, forums, and our codebase. You can read, understand, and navigate through all of this yourself without handholding.
• You take pride in writing clean and maintainable code. You work on a team. You read others code. They read yours. Make both of your lives easy by making code simple and easy to understand. Do you hate yourself? No? Good. Then write code that you would want to read.
• You move fast. We’re a startup. We ship features quickly.

Who is this for?

• You want to cut your teeth as an early engineer on a small but hardworking team.
• You’re not one for defined roles. You’re excited to work full stack and more. When we needed to add ML features, our engineers who know Node/React spun up a Flask app in Python and put together basics.
• You’re excited to experience a lot of growth. Our engineers say that they’ve shipped faster here than any other job before. They feel confident from all the programming they do across different surfaces. It’s a massive career accelerator.

Who is this not for?

• You can’t work hard right now. If you have other priorities outside of work, being an early engineer at a startup is probably not the right move. It’s not crazy. M-F, 9-7 (hours are flexible), but also not a relaxed big company where nothing matters.
• You need a traditional environment and structure. I care deeply about product and code quality. But I can’t handhold you since I also have to do sales, marketing, customer support, ops, HR, and a whole bunch of things. I meet with the team daily to do code reviews and answer product questions. Beyond that, you can ask your peers, but there’s no manager who’s going to sit by you.
• You’re not excited about what we do. We are building software to help companies automate sales. Lots of UX work, data scraping, AI and LLMs, tons of integrations, and some distributed systems.

What will you do?

• Architect and implement features for our platform on both frontend and backend. There is no part of the codebase you won't touch.
• Create infrastructure and tooling for handling high volumes of email, page views, working with SEO data, dozens of 3rd party integrations and scraping. Performance matters.
• Work with latest AI and LLMs using OpenAI, HuggingFace, IBM, and Google APIs.
• Collaborate with team on code reviews and best practices to grow a scaleable codebase.
• Work directly with the founders to roadmap new features.
• Our stack is React, Node JS, Next JS, MongoDB, Pub/Sub, Flask, and others.

Requirements

• 1+ year of non professional / professional software engineering experience
• You have publicly viewable side projects on GitHub and can pick-up new technologies and frameworks quickly. Please share your GitHub.
• You are comfortable working on both backend and frontend development.
• Ability to act independently, work well with a team, and ship features quickly. A positive can-do attitude and confidence that you can solve any problem is needed at a startup where we're figuring things out as we go.
• Good English communication skills and ability to read documentation online to research how to solve problems yourself.
• Familiarity with Node, JS, React, and SQL. It's ok if you're not, but as long as you're a quick learner and think you can pick up our stack within a month or two, you'll be fine.

Why you should apply?

• Lots of ownership on a small team.
• Directly interact with founders to develop new features.
• You are looking to learn rapidly. This isn't a big company job tweaking small pieces of a giant project without impact. You will be shipping new features every week.
• We stay on top of trends: We’re power users of frameworks like Next JS, GCP, Figma, Linear, and use the latest technologies to scale.
• We build for our customers: We keep a good pulse on the sales domain. We have a group of growing early customers who help us define our product.
• We’re grounded: Too many startups raise lots of money and are building fluff. We’re pragmatic and seek to create value for our customers that they're willing to pay for. We're optimistic that we're building a platform that will be the de facto tool for thousands of B2B sales teams in 2-3 years.