Software Engineer Intern (Systems)

Substrate builds financial infrastructure to grow industrial GDP.

Were hiring a systems software engineer intern who has tackled hard technical problems help us build core 01 systems at the intersection of software hardware and finance. Youll help architect and ship systems that power machine shops farms factories construction contractors and more.

Substrate engineering interns have immense ownership to lead full-stack product cycles end-to-end from customer discovery to production deployment. Youll get to occasionally travel with the founder to factory floors meet Main Street manufacturers and Wall Street lenders face-to-face and build exactly what the field demands.

Given the technical complexity of our product and the high degree of ownership we trust interns with weve found engineers typically take 6-8 weeks to fully onboard and lead their own projects. Therefore we strongly prefer candidates who can commit to an 8-month internship. We occasionally make exceptions for those who are truly exceptional.

• You believe in objective good and beauty and you want to bring them to an antiquated predatory industry.

• You believe not all technology is created equal. You dont care about building another enterprise SaaS tool you want to build tools that advance civilization.

• You want to work with people who treat their work as craft who violently reject just good enough and you want to help build that culture.

• Wrap beautiful and simple abstractions around gnarly complexity and legacy systems

• Own full product lifecyclefrom customer pain full-stack design 0-to-1 full-stack engineering ship product

• Design and deploy production-grade LLM systems that automate core loan operations (e.g. underwriting compliance document processing)

• Help build a product culture that harmonizes speed taste and customer obsession

• Youve solved hard technical problems most of your peers havent encountered and you can explain exactly how your solution works to extreme depth

• You gravitate toward thinking in systems infrastructure and architectural tradeoffs

• You have strong opinions about what good abstractions look like

• You have deep experience with TypeScript Postgres and AWS

• You prefer hard backend problems but are comfortable building frontends and have UI design taste

• You resonate with our engineering philosophy

If you are interested please apply via Dover AND email with the following (your app wont be considered without these):

• If you could have one persons career arc who would it be and why

• Whats an unpopular truth you believe in

• Whats the most technically challenging system youve ever built Include the tech stack you chose why you chose them other alternatives key technical challenges and how you solved them and any architectural tradeoffs you had to make.

• Availability for a 30min call

Required Experience:

Intern