About the role
About Blackbird: Blackbird Labs is a loyalty and payments platform establishing meaningful connections between the world’s best restaurants and their customers. Served up in 2022 by Ben Leventhal, co-founder of Eater and Resy, Blackbird offers a fully customizable loyalty programming platform for restaurants and a consumer app designed to make every guest feel like a bonafide VIP no matter where they dine. Backed by Union Square Ventures, a16z, Amex Ventures, Variant Fund, and other forward-thinking investors, Blackbird is out to revolutionize the restaurant industry. About Our Team: At Blackbird, our values guide everything we do and our talent principles define the key traits we seek in our employees. We have passion for our product – committed to our mission and instinctively think like and go the extra mile for our customers. We are elite performers – striving for excellence, going above and beyond to achieve exceptional results, and learning quickly with horsepower, drive, and grit. We make others better – taking initiative to elevate others, giving and receiving feedback, and championing a culture of growth. We hold one another accountable to living out our talent principles as we march together to achieving our mission.
About
the Role Blackbird is looking for exceptional full stack engineering interns for Summer 2026. You'll ship production code used by real restaurants and diners, not sandboxed projects that never see the light of day. You'll get hands-on experience across the stack and real exposure to how a fast-moving product team works. If you already build things on your own and want to be held to a real bar, this is
the role for you. Please note this role requires you to be in office in New York City and we are unable to cover relocation costs at this time.
What You'll Do Build and iterate on features across our web and mobile surfaces Help debug flows that span our terminal, mobile app, and backend services Write code that runs in real restaurant environments with real consequences Contribute to architecture conversations and learn how we make decisions