Software Engineer Internship

Compensation: No equity

PhrasIQ Software Engineering · Remote · Full-time Intern Before applying, please follow [PhrasIQ page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/phrasiq) on LinkedIn — we look at engagement with our updates as one signal of genuine interest. **About the Team** PhrasIQ is building the intelligence layer for enterprise finance. Our platform — InsightOS — gives finance teams AI-powered forecasting, decision support, and reporting that is fully auditable and traceable. We're a small founding team that moves with the speed and rigor of people who know exactly what they're building and why. Every person here has a direct line to the product, the architecture, and the decisions that shape both. **About the Role** We're looking for a Software Engineer Intern to work directly with the founding team on real product problems — not tickets, not documentation, not support tooling. You'll build features that enterprise users will touch, work across a codebase that takes system design seriously, and be expected to think, not just execute. This is an unpaid internship. What it offers instead: genuine ownership, close mentorship, and a direct path to a full-time role based on performance, learning outcomes, and culture fit. We're not looking for someone to fill a seat — we're looking for someone who wants to grow into a founding engineer. This isn't a summer project. Over 6 months, you'll go deep enough to own a surface area of the product end-to-end. **In this role, you will:** * Build and ship features across the InsightOS interface and API layer * Work on how financial data is structured, surfaced, and explained to enterprise users * Collaborate directly with the founding team across product, design, and architecture decisions * Treat unclear requirements as product problems — and propose solutions, not just questions **Your background looks something like:** * Pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field * Some hands-on experience with TypeScript, React, or Python — we don't need all three * Familiarity with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) * Genuine curiosity about AI, fintech, or developer tooling * Comfortable in environments where things are loosely defined and you're expected to bring structure **About PhrasIQ** PhrasIQ is an agentic finance and decision intelligence platform. We're building the infrastructure that makes AI-generated financial outputs trustworthy — deterministic, versioned, and explainable by design. Our thesis is that enterprise finance teams deserve AI that can be audited, not just admired. We're early, we're focused, and we're hiring people who want to build something that lasts. **A note on compensation** This role is unpaid. We're transparent about that because we respect your time. In exchange, you get: proximity to a founding team building in a defensible space, real product ownership from day one, and a conversion path to a full-time role for interns who demonstrate the capability and drive to grow with us. ***Screening Questions (must reply in your application)*** 1. **This is an unpaid internship, 4–6 months, with a possible path to a founding role based on performance. What makes that worth it for you right now?** 2. **Describe a project where you had to figure something out with little to no guidance — a bug with no clear cause, a spec that didn't exist yet, a tool you had to learn on the fly. What did you actually do first?** 3. **Our architecture has a hard rule: one system layer (InsightOS) never touches another's database directly, only through its API. Why might a rule like that exist, and where have you seen (or broken) something similar?**