
Bloxd · United Kingdom
We’re a profitable video game start-up in London with 15 million monthly players and we’re hiring a software engineering intern to join our 11-person founding t...
We’re a profitable video game start-up in London with 15 million monthly players and we’re hiring a software engineering intern to
join our 11-person founding team for a summer.
About us
Creating games with editable worlds usually takes 20k+ lines of well-optimised code and large amounts of effort. Bloxd gives you
editable worlds in 5 lines of code, within 5 minutes. You can play our games at bloxd.io.
About you
You’re passionate about gaming and excited by the prospect of building great games that bring millions together. You have strong
engineering fundamentals and a strong product sense, are eager to wear many hats across game design, UI/UX, and community
management, and can iterate quickly on a live product whilst learning from player feedback.
You’re equally excited by difficult engineering problems and by voxel, sandbox, and multiplayer games. You think deeply about what
makes these games fun and enjoy building the technical systems that make them possible.
What we’re looking for
experience.
projects.
Things you could work on during your internship
Our tech
We have a TypeScript-first codebase and use a combination of React, WebGL, and Node. This tech allows us to deliver Bloxd in an
incredibly accessible way and provides a great developer experience. You’ll need to be happy to pick these up if you’re not
already familiar with them.
Internship details
This is a full-time 3-month summer internship (for either 2026 or 2027, or 3rd year 6-month placement) based in our King’s Cross
office in London. You’ll work directly with our founding team and ship meaningful features to a live product used by millions of
players.
Benefits
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