Sodium Learn
Frontend Engineer Intern - UI/UX
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Frontend Engineer Intern – UI/UX & Improvements (Unpaid)
Remote | 6 months | ~20 hrs/week | Start ASAP | Compulsory, credit-bearing UK placement | Deadline: 10/11/2026 | Unpaid work-experience placement (a required part of your course)
About Sodium Learn
Sodium Learn is an enterprise EdTech startup based in the UK. We are building an intelligent learning and workforce capability platform for regulated SMEs and scaling startups: businesses that need to develop their people, stay compliant & perform, but do not have internal resources or time to handle the manual admin.
The role
You will work closely with our Frontend Engineer & Chief Product & Experience Designer to turn approved UI/UX designs into clean, production-ready frontend across the Sodium Learn platform: Create (our AI-assisted authoring tool), Manage (the admin experience) and Learn (the learner app). Your focus is markup and improvements: building accurate, accessible and responsive screens from Figma, and polishing the details (spacing, states, consistency and small bugs) that make the product feel finished. You will be mentored by our Founding Software Engineer and you will learn how a real product team ships.
This is an AI-enabled role. You will use AI coding tools every day to move faster, and you will learn to review, test and take responsibility for everything you ship.
Our tech stack
Sodium Learn is a multi-tenant platform made up of several frontends built with a micro-frontend approach, using Angular, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. You will work across these apps, so you will gain experience with more than one framework and see how they fit together in a real product.
What you will contribute towards:
- Design to code: translate Figma designs into semantic, accessible and responsive markup and styles, following the Sodium Learn design system (colours, typography, spacing, components) and flagging gaps or edge cases back to design early
- Authoring and learner experience: help polish what authors and learners use every day
- UI improvements: review existing screens for inconsistencies in layout, spacing, typography, colour and components, then fix them. Pick up small bugs and polish tasks from the backlog
- Reusable components: help build and tidy reusable UI components and styles, so new screens are quicker to build and stay consistent across our apps and tenant-branded experiences
- Responsive and accessible by default: check your work across screen sizes and browsers, and apply accessibility basics (semantic HTML, keyboard use, focus states, contrast, alt text)
- AI-assisted workflow: use AI tools to generate first drafts of markup, refactor code, write tests and explore options, then review and refine the output yourself. Share what works and what does not
- Collaborate: work with our Frontend Engineer, Founding Engineer, product and design teams, share work in progress often, take part in code reviews, communicate clearly in writing and explain your decisions
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Who we are looking for
Students enrolled on a university course, where this placement is a compulsory requirement of that course (placement of no more than one year)
- Studying Computer Science, Software Engineering, Web Development or a related subject
- Solid HTML and CSS, working knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript, and a good eye for detail, layout and spacing
- Comfortable reading Figma designs and turning them into pixel-accurate UI
- Curious about AI tools and keen to use them (for example Copilot, Cursor or Claude) as part of your daily workflow, while still checking and understanding the code they produce
- Detail-oriented, self-directed, open to feedback and comfortable asking questions and proposing ideas
- A plus: experience with Angular or React (we use both, and you do not need to know both), a component library, Git and pull requests, accessibility basics, or a portfolio / GitHub with frontend work (not required)
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What you will gain
- Hands-on experience shipping real frontend work in a live product
- Practical experience of working with AI tools in a professional engineering workflow
- Experience of code review, design handoff and working in an agile startup team
How to apply
Email hiring@sodiumlearn.com with:
- Your CV and cover letter
- A portfolio or GitHub link with two examples of frontend work (for example a responsive page built from a design, or a small UI component project)
- Written university confirmation that the placement is compulsory, with course name, module and dates
- A short written response (max 150 words) to the application question below: "Pick a website or app whose interface you admire. What is one detail you would improve in its frontend, and how would you use AI tools to build it while making sure the result is correct and accessible?"
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Shortlisted candidates may be asked to complete a short frontend task, such as building a small section from a Figma design.
Internship details
- 6 months, ~20 hours per week (flexible around studies), fully remote
- Unpaid and credit-bearing. This is a work-experience placement that forms a required part of your course, which is why it is unpaid. It includes mentorship, certification and a professional reference. Reasonable expenses reimbursed
- Must be a compulsory placement on a recognised UK university course, lasting no more than one year
- This placement does not carry any promise or expectation of paid work or future employment
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