About Uphold
Uphold is a financial technology company that believes on-chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for on-chain payments, banking, and investments. Offering Consumer Services, Business Services, and Institutional Trading, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries.Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone.To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com.The opportunity:Uphold is looking for an intern to join our Quality Assurance team for a Summer Internship.
This is an exciting opportunity where you’ll get to gain hands-on experience testing real-world applications, contribute to the development and maintenance of automated test scripts, and collaborate closely with developers and product managers to ensure the highest quality standards across our platform. You’ll help identify and resolve issues that directly impact our users and play a key role in delivering reliable, high-performance software. This internship is ideal for someone passionate about technology, detail-oriented, and eager to learn more about software quality and reliability in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.Primary responsibilities:Uphold's Summer Internship provides you with a first experience in the job market.
It’s designed for students and recent graduates to give you insight into Uphold and how we work — our processes, our people, and our dynamics.As a Summer intern at Uphold, you will join our Quality Assurance team and contribute to ongoing projects with the necessary guidance and support along the way. We’ll define your project together. Before we kick things off, we’ll get to know you, understand what excites you and where you can bring the most value — and tailor the challenge to fit.This is what the Summer internship looks like:
- 8-week program: July 14 to September 5, 2025.
- Work setup: Based in Braga with remote and hybrid options available.
- Welcome gift: You’ll receive some cool Uphold swag!
- Mentor: A mentor will guide your work and provide ongoing feedback.
- Buddy: A buddy will help you settle in and support you along the way.
- Equipment: We’ll provide a laptop for the duration of your internship.
- Compensation: Successfully completing the internship makes you eligible for up to €2,500!
- Future opportunities: This is a short-term internship, but great work tends to get noticed!
Required qualifications:
- Students from the 2nd year onwards, or recent graduates in software engineering or similar.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- High attention to detail.
- Solid communication skills, both oral and written.
- Fluent written and oral English skills.
Bonus if you have:
- Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business.
- Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your interests and research.
- Open source project contributions of any kind, such as tools developed to solve specific problems you’ve had or fixing issues on existing projects.
What we offer:
- An amazing work environment and experience in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people who keep innovating and challenging themselves more each day.
- The chance to work on exciting, meaningful projects with an international team in a cutting-edge field.
- A flexible and enthusiastic work environment that offers you snacks, a lot of coffee, and other great benefits.
- A culture of openness and transparency — we meet weekly to share updates, talk strategy, and connect over food and drinks.
- Team events and celebrations help you build connections, celebrate our success, and have some fun along the way.
Join us to grow, innovate, and contribute meaningfully. Be part of our talented team!Deadline - June 10thVisit our careers page for more exciting opportunities if this Summer internship isn’t the perfect fit.EEOC EmployerWe're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, and any other protected classes.
Difference makes us stronger and better - together.
