Software Engineer Intern

We're hiring Winter 2027 SWE interns Build tools & infrastructure for the in-person community economy

Applications reviewed on a rolling basis

Wygo builds software & support systems for in-person community organizers.

We're building the economic rails, professional networks, and discovery layer that will allow a new class of creators to step up and meet the exploding demand for real-world experiences.

Today, our ticketing platform is an operational home base for organizers. As we grow, we'll help hosts build their identities, strengthen their economics, and plug into resource-rich partner ecosystems so they can go from organizing one-off events to sustaining vibrant in-person communities long term.

Our Team

Joss & Chris are the cofounders of Wygo, lifelong hosts, and Systems Design Engineering graduates from the University of Waterloo. We work super hard, love what we do, and have a ton of fun building this company -- we can't wait to welcome awesome new hires onto the team.

Joss has been building networks of community organizers since age 14, with her impact recognized by the Pearl Sullivan and TD Scholarship for Community Leadership. She and Chris were lead organizers at Socratica and UW Startups , growing the community to over 3,500 attendees and 100 hosts across 30 locations hosting regular in-person events. She works daily to build the complete support system community organizers need to be successful.
Chris has solo-built and maintained websites for multiple creative collectives, reaching over a million visitors. He's built our product from the ground up, is a skilled software engineer and user experience researcher, and brings a healthy dose of camp counsellor energy to the team.
We love thinking from first principles and getting to the root of complex problems. We believe in getting our hands dirty (can be found cleaning up chairs after events), using our own product (we host a MEAN scavenger hunt), and letting our personalities shine through in our work.
Most importantly, we're building the world we want to live in.

NOTE: We'll be closing this form on Oct. 21 by EOD

[NOTE]: THIS IS A JOB POSTING, NOT AN EVENT. We thought it would be fun to run our hiring process through our platform to give applicants a sense of what we've built so far. :)

WaterlooWorks applicants: We'll follow Cycle 2 timelines for interviews and rankings to ensure we don't conflict with the rest of your recruiting process.

All other applicants: All other intern applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We're looking for current undergraduate students at any Canadian school

Internship logistics:

4-month internship, expected start & end dates: January 11–April 30, 2027

Commitment: 40 hours/week, with optional overtime (compensated accordingly)

This is a fully in-person role based in downtown Toronto

The Role

We’re a team of 4, including two engineers. As a SWE intern, you’ll work closely with Chris (our CTO) and Oana (our Founding Engineer) to build the tools and infrastructure that will facilitate interactions between thousands of community organizers, partners, and attendees.

Along the way, we’ll be invested in your personal growth and technical development. Our goal is to help you become a better engineer, and empower you to operate as a core member of our dev team.

What you’ll do:

Build with Next.js and Supabase

Ship features regularly for thousands of users

Host and attend events with us in Toronto to gain intuition for our product. Enter new communities to empathize with the user who is trying to find belonging in the place they live

Communicate with attendees & hosts to fix bugs and ingest product feedback / feature suggestions

Identify and work onprojects that are meaningful to you after ramping up on our codebase

What you’ll bring:

A track record of shipping code. Whether it's from previous internships or ambitious personal projects, we want to see that you’ve shipped production‑grade code

Experience with Next.js, React, PostgreSQL, or worked with similar technologies

Compulsive improvement -

an itch to sneak in small fixes and leave codebases better than you found them

Craft & pragmatism - you have a high quality bar, but you know when good beats perfect

Bonus: Experience working at a startup (or in other high‑responsibility environments where you’ve had to make good decisions with incomplete information / tight time constraints)

Bonus bonus: Experience leading or growing in‑person communities. Hackathon organizers, tech leads, and community builders bring something to this team that's hard to teach