Hackers & Breakers Intern (English)
We need contrarians. Your job is to log into our platform, products, and APIs as if you are a real English-speaking founder launching different types of companies with unique, edge-case challenges. You won’t necessarily be building new things yet; you will be fiercely focused on learning what has already been built, and using every out-of-the-box trick to break it, hack it, and stress-test it. You are our reality check. Help us identify exactly what a customer may love, what they will hate, and where they might stumble.
What You’ll Learn
- Quality assurance and edge-case testing for production systems
- Security testing and vulnerability assessment
- User experience evaluation from a founder’s perspective
- API testing and integration verification
- Building comprehensive test suites and bug reports
What We Offer
The Innovation Dividend
Direct mentorship from a 5x founder (2 acquired), former Amazon VP, and Affiliate Assistant Professor at UW
Ship to production on a 90,000+ LOC codebase
Portfolio credit on a category-defining AI platform
Mission-driven work democratizing the C-Suite for 36 million small businesses
Prerequisites
- *Deep passion for product quality, and native or fluent in US English (required)
- *Relentless curiosity
- *Voracious appetite and willingness to learn
Desirable
- +Dart/Flutter experience
- +Next.js experience
- +AI coding tools proficiency
- +Experience building web or native mobile apps
How do you stay open-minded as a founder when you're the one who built this thing from nothing?
From a fireside chat at the University of Washington, INFO 498 (May 2025).
Interested in this role?
No cover letter. No 45-minute application form. Tell us who you are, what excites you, and link your best work. Under 5 minutes.
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