Summer 2026 Engineering Internship

Tandem Job Opportunity

Are you the kind of person who is always building? Staying up late at night hacking together websites? Working on a startup hustle between other stuff? Come join us in summer 2026 in our office where you'll get real, hands-on experience building tech at a funded, fast-paced startup and work in an office surrounded by YC founders.

Tandem is building a multi-modal AI office space broker, capable of walking people through every step of their office search in an automated, personalized and scalable way. The way office space works and the industry behind it is getting completely flipped on its head right now. We are in the middle of a major disruption driven by three things:

1. Over 50% of office space is currently sitting empty in US cities.
2. Hybrid and remote work are here to stay. The five-days-in-the-office workweek is going away forever for many, many, many jobs.

We match, service and enable companies every day to find their perfect office space, and we're just getting started.

We're a small, experienced team - currently we have 15 full time employees. Expect a fast-paced environment where you'll learn a ton and have significant ownership beyond engineering - you'll constantly be in discussions about things like product, design, strategy, etc. You will report directly to the CTO, who is highly technical (ex-Google, 3x CTO, 2x YC).

Expect to ship: You will be building customer-facing features to help other VC-backed startups find office space. This includes working on web features backed by AI pipelines, growth-hacking by building shareable content and SEO/AEO magnet features, internal AI-powered dashboards for office matchmaking, and more.

What we're looking for:

OWNERSHIP / and BUILDER mentality - We are all owners and builders:

• We are all owners at Tandem, no one is a ticket-taker - we're looking for a go-getter with extreme levels of ownership and an A+ positive / get-shit-done attitude
• Team player who takes responsibility and finds thrill in challenge!

CODING SKILLS - We do not expect you to be an expert, but you must have the technical chops to bring ideas to life with code:

• React and Typescript experience required. Node JS/Next JS experience is a plus (we use Next JS)
• Experience writing full-stack web code - you should be comfortable writing front end React code and interacting with a back-end server code, and have some knowledge of database models and services.
• Comfortable with Claude Code/Cursor/Codex

PRODUCT SKILLS - You must be a product-minded and curious engineer:

• Ability to empathize with customers and think strategically about what to build and why.
• Ability to communicate clearly about product requirements and tradeoffs.

Our tech stack:

• Typescript/React/NextJS front end & NextJS/tRPC backend
• AI: OpenAI, Gemini, Replicate AI, Vercel AI APIs. We have RAG pipelines, tool calling w vercel agents etc
• Postgres Database (with Drizzle ORM)
• Hosted on Vercel
• We use Cursor and Claude Code daily

Important: Apply via Google Form

We've replaced the resume with a short written answer and a 60-second video. The whole application should take about 10 minutes.

What to expect:

• A short paragraph about something you've built, hacked together, or made happen on your own. Doesn't need to be impressive in scale — we care about specificity and resourcefulness, not pedigree.
• A 60-second video walking us through what you described. Think YC founder application video in style: talking head, no edits, no script. Just you explaining it like you'd explain it to a friend. Examples:

We review applications on a rolling basis. Final deadline is June 15, 2026.