The Athletic · 3 months ago
Engineering Student Intern, Summer 2026 (Remote)
The Athletic Media Company is a leading sports media organization with a large global newsroom. They are offering an internship for Summer 2026 where interns will work closely with Engineers on projects, gaining hands-on experience in engineering tasks and collaborating on code development.
JournalismNewsSports
Responsibilities
Work on project(s) designed by a mentor/ teammates
Collaborate with Engineers to build the project
Write clean/maintainable code
Debug/troubleshoot issues
Learn and apply new technologies, tools, and frameworks as needed
Engage in team meetings, and stand-ups
Potential opportunities to work with Product, Design and other cross-functional disciplines
Qualification
Required
This role is open to current undergraduates (ideally in their junior or senior year), recent graduates, and recent boot camp graduates
Must be based in either the United States or Canada and be have the ability to work 30-40 hours per week
Experience in Javascript is highly preferred
And most importantly… bring your enthusiasm and desire to learn!
Preferred
Experience in the one or more of the following technologies would be useful, but not required: ReactJS, Apollo GraphQL, AWS (Dynamo, S3, among others), Git/GitHub, PHP
Knowledge and interest in sports is a plus, but not required
Providing a link to a side project/GitHub is optional to showcase any of your work
Company
The Athletic
The Athletic is an online media company that specializes in online news publishing for the sports industry.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$139.46MKey Investors
Bedrock Capital PartnersFounders FundEvolution Media
2022-01-06Acquired
2020-01-21Series D· $50M
2019-05-29Series C· $21.76M
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