Mobile Engineering Intern (2027 Summer Internship)

AppLovin makes technologies that help businesses of every size connect to their ideal customers. The company provides end-to-end advertising solutions for businesses to reach monetize and grow their global audiences. For more information about AppLovin visit: .

To deliver on this mission our global team is composed of team members with life experiences backgrounds and perspectives that mirror our developers and customers around the world. At AppLovin we are intentional about the team and culture we are building seeking candidates who are outstanding in their own right and also demonstrate their support of others.

At AppLovin we believe great mobile experiences are crafted not assembled. Our new social platform venture a startup operating within AppLovin is looking for mobile engineering interns for Summer 2027 to help build a consumer app from the ground up focused on content discovery real-time social interaction and creator tools. Youll work directly on production code alongside the founding engineering team tackling real technical challenges in performance media rendering and UI not triaging bugs or writing test scripts in a corner.

Our mobile team owns the entire user-facing experience across iOS and Android from fluid gesture-driven content feeds to media capture video editing real-time interaction and the architecture that makes all of it scale. We care deeply about performance user delight and decisions that will hold up as the product grows. As an intern youll be embedded in the teams sprint cycle with a dedicated senior engineer mentor on your platform and youll own a defined project with a clear path to production before your internship ends.

Gist is a new social media platform for people who want substance practical thoughtful content that spans philosophy debates city-specific recommendations seasonal gift guides and wellness tips. Across categories like travel food career and family we describe it as a handbook for the curious.
Gist is built by AppLovin Corporation a company that hit $5.3B in revenue last year and sits alongside Google and Meta as one of the worlds leading ad tech platforms. Fortune recognizes AppLovin as one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area and the company has been a Certified Great Place to Work for the last four years ().

• Build and ship features within our iOS or Android application working end-to-end from design discussion to production-ready code.
• Own a focused internship project scoped with a clear deliverable and real impact on the user experience.
• Participate in code reviews architecture discussions and cross-functional syncs with product and design.
• Investigate and resolve issues related to UI responsiveness memory usage media playback or platform behaviour.
• Collaborate with backend and design team members to implement features with a high bar for quality and feel.

• Currently pursuing a Bachelors degree or above in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
• Proficiency in Swift (iOS) or Kotlin/Java (Android) with a working understanding of the relevant platform SDK and UI framework (UIKit / SwiftUI or Android SDK / Jetpack).
• Solid grasp of mobile fundamentals on your platform app lifecycle memory management threading and layout systems.
• Strong problem-solving instincts and attention to how things feel to a user not just whether they function.
• Eagerness to learn quickly take feedback and contribute meaningfully in a fast-moving team.

• Any personal project coursework or open-source work involving mobile development shipping something to the App Store or Play Store is a strong signal.
• iOS: exposure to AVFoundation Core Image or Instruments for performance profiling.
• Android: familiarity with Jetpack libraries (Room LiveData ViewModel Compose) or Android Studio Profiler.
• Interest in video media processing real-time messaging content creation tools or social platforms.
• Comfort working in ambiguous fast-iteration environments where the product is still being defined.