Blackbird Labs is a loyalty and payments platform establishing meaningful connections between the world’s best restaurants and their customers.
Served up in 2022 by Ben Leventhal, co-founder of Eater and Resy, Blackbird offers a fully customizable loyalty programming platform for restaurants and a consumer app designed to make every guest feel like a bonafide VIP no matter where they dine. Backed by Union Square Ventures, a16z, Amex Ventures, Variant Fund, and other forward-thinking investors, Blackbird is out to revolutionize the restaurant industry.
About Our Team:At Blackbird, our values guide everything we do and our talent principles define the key traits we seek in our employees.
We have passion for our product – committed to our mission and instinctively think like and go the extra mile for our customers. We are elite performers – striving for excellence, going above and beyond to achieve exceptional results, and learning quickly with horsepower, drive, and grit. We make others better – taking initiative to elevate others, giving and receiving feedback, and championing a culture of growth. We hold one another accountable to living out our talent principles as we march together to achieving our mission.
About the Role
Blackbird is looking for exceptional full stack engineering interns for Summer 2026. You'll ship production code used by real restaurants and diners, not sandboxed projects that never see the light of day. You'll get hands-on experience across the stack and real exposure to how a fast-moving product team works.
If you already build things on your own and want to be held to a real bar, this is the role for you. Please note this role requires you to be in office in New York City and we are unable to cover relocation costs at this time.
What You'll Do
Build and iterate on features across our web and mobile surfaces
Help debug flows that span our terminal, mobile app, and backend services
Write code that runs in real restaurant environments with real consequences
Contribute to architecture conversations and learn how we make decisions
What We're Looking For
Coursework or project experience with React and TypeScript
Familiarity with async data patterns (REST, WebSockets, or similar)
Curiosity about how systems fail and how to build them to recover gracefully
Comfortable asking questions, moving fast, and owning your work in a small team
Nice to Haves
Any exposure to payments, fintech, or hospitality tech
Interest in how software works under hardware and network constraints
Pay Transparency Notice The compensation rate is $25 an hour USD. Disclosure in accordance with New York City's Pay Transparency Law.
Commitment to Equal OpportunityBlackbird Labs is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Blackbird will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. For US applicants, you may view the Know Your Rights notice here. Additionally, Blackbird participates in the E-Verify program.
Join us and find out what the best work of your career could look like here at Blackbird.
Skills Required
- Coursework or project experience with React and TypeScript
- Familiarity with async data patterns (REST, WebSockets, or similar)
- Curiosity about how systems fail and how to build them to recover gracefully
- Comfortable asking questions, moving fast, and owning your work in a small team
Blackbird Labs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Blackbird Labs and has not been reviewed or approved by Blackbird Labs.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage (medical, dental, vision) is consistently listed in postings as part of the core package. Feedback suggests this reflects a solid baseline of employer-sponsored healthcare for a startup context.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options are included for many full-time roles. Feedback suggests equity is positioned as a meaningful component of total compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible time off is highlighted across multiple postings. Feedback suggests time-away policies emphasize autonomy rather than strict accruals.
Blackbird Labs Insights
What We Do
Blackbird is the loyalty company for restaurants, backed by A16Z, Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, QED, American Express, Coinbase and others. Built for the places—and people—that make dining special.
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