Summer Internship - Analytics Engineering Intern

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 integrates with more than 30 trading venues, including centralized and decentralized exchanges, to deliver superior liquidity and optimal execution. Uphold never loans out customer assets and is always 100% reserved. The company pioneered radical transparency and uniquely publishes its assets and liabilities every 30 seconds on a public website (https://uphold.com/en-us/transparency).

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.

Job Summary

Uphold is looking for an intern to join our Analytics Engineering team for a Summer Internship. You’ll work on the transformation layer that powers Uphold’s analytics and reporting — building and testing data models in dbt, writing SQL against Snowflake, and collaborating with data analysts and engineers to ensure clean, well-documented data is accessible across the business. We’ll define your project together, get to know what excites you, and tailor the challenge to fit.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Contribute to building and testing dbt data models in Snowflake.
• Write and optimise SQL transformations for analytics and reporting use cases.
• Help document data models, lineage, and transformation logic.
• Collaborate with data analysts to understand requirements and surface the right data.
• Support data quality checks and testing practices across the transformation layer.
• Explore how generative AI tools (Claude, Agents, MCPs) can support analytics engineering workflows.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Ongoing academic studies or degree, preferred in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Foundational knowledge of software development, preferably with experience in Python.
• Basic experience with SQL — comfortable writing queries and understanding relational data structures.
• Basic experience with GenAI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or others).
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• High attention to detail.
• Solid communication skills, both oral and written.
• Fluent written and oral English skills.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Interest in data modelling concepts (dimensional modelling, star/snowflake schemas).
• Exposure to dbt or interest in SQL-based transformation frameworks.
• Familiarity with version control (Git / GitHub).
• Enthusiasm for solving real-world problems with data.
• Interest in data quality, testing, and documentation practices.
• Experience with BI tools like Metabase, Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• 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.

What We Offer

• 8-week program: July 20 to September 11, 2026.
• Work setup: Based in Braga or Porto, with 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 €2,840.

Join us to grow, innovate, and contribute meaningfully. Be part of our talented team!

Visit our careers page for more exciting opportunities, if this role isn’t the perfect fit.

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