Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2026)

You’ll also be working directly with my co-founder Yonas. Before StarSling, Yonas was the Founder & CEO of StackShare, a developer community used by over 40 million developers. He raised $12M as a first-time founder and did founder sales to get them to just under $1M ARR with their enterprise product before selling the company last year. He’s obsessed with creating product experiences that developers love and building community.

💻 What You’ll Own

Your internship will focus on delivering a single project end-to-end to customers. Here’s an idea of the types of projects that we work on:

• Agent Harness: Improve our close-loop optimization harness — MCP, tool use, memory, retry logic, context updates, feedback mechanisms.
• Headless Product Experience: Create agent-first product experiences (API, CLI and Markdown). 
• Event-driven Dashboard: Design schemas, event flows and ingest dev tools webhooks to power a real-time personalized engineering portal.

✅ This IS for you if

• You’re a 0-to-1 builder who can unblock themself autonomously.
• You have a genuine curiosity about agentic products and are excited about understanding how to create effective closed-loop agents.
• You’re unusually obsessed with hard problems. Your current skills or even what you've done before is less important than your ability to go all-in and accomplish anything that you set your mind to.
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity and adapting to dynamic priorities. You need to have good judgement to know when to let little fires burn and when to immediately jump in.
• You have excellent communication and candor. You’ll be communicating directly with engineers and collaborating with us on key decisions.
• You have grit and perseverance. You should be accustomed to picking between hard options and pushing through it.

❌ This IS NOT for you if

• You’re not based in The Bay Area (we’ll be a team of four if you join so we’ll be sitting next to each other everyday)
• You’re not available for the internship. June 19 - August 21, 2026
• You’re not willing to work six days per week (we take Sundays off)
• You’re not using codegen tools like Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
• You’re not comfortable deleting 80%-90% of the code that you write.
• You’re not comfortable with ambiguity and rapid context-switching.
• You don’t like candor- receiving and giving direct, honest feedback.
• You need a well defined structure or spec for every task.

🌍 The Opportunity

• Work alongside two experienced co-founders - one who built and sold a dev tools startup and one who led the engineering effort to create the same product we’re creating at scale
• Get experience across the startup stack - you’ll be doing customer support, bug squashing, user interviews, and everything else along with writing code
• Hands-on experience at the next dev tools category leader - we’re not just building a dev tool, we’re building an engineering platform that every company in Silicon Valley will be using and paying for

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.