Frontend Engineering Intern
About NovaChat:
NovaChat is an early-stage AI startup building next-generation messaging tools for online creators. We help creators scale their digital businesses by improving how they communicate, automate workflows, and engage with their audiences. We're a small, fast-paced team where interns get real responsibility and ship production work that impacts users immediately.
Role Overview:
We’re looking for a Frontend Engineering Intern who enjoys building clean, intuitive interfaces and wants to gain real-world software experience. You will work directly with our engineering team to:
- Improve our user dashboard and web application
- Fix UI/UX bugs and inconsistencies
- Polish layouts, spacing, component styling, and responsiveness
- Build and refine small components
- Improve onboarding flow and user experience
- Help implement design updates across the platform
This is a hands-on internship where your work will be used by real users — not throwaway projects.
Technologies You’ll Use:
- React
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- GitHub (PR workflow)
- Vercel
Basic familiarity with React is enough, we will support you in everything else.
What You’ll Gain:
- Startup experience in a fast-moving engineering team
- Portfolio-ready product work (not just school projects)
- Mentorship and guidance on modern development practices
- Experience shipping code to a live production environment
- A strong reference and potential long-term opportunity
Ideal Candidate:
You might be a great fit if you:
- Care about clean UI and good design
- Enjoy solving front-end problems
- Are comfortable with React
- Communicate clearly and take initiative
- Want meaningful experience working on a real product
- Currently enrolled in a college or university
- Comfortable with React fundamentals
- Familiar with Git/GitHub
- Attention to detail
- Able to commit 10–15 hours/week
Compensation:
- Unpaid internship initially
- Opportunity to move into a paid part-time or full-time role based on performance
- Flexible hours
- Fully remote
How to Apply:
- Submit through Handshake:
- Resume
- Any GitHub links, projects, or portfolio (optional but recommended)