Community Technology is a nine-month internship for emerging engineers, designers, and product thinkers. Interns ship real software — for churches, nonprofits, and mission-aligned teams across the United States — under the apprenticeship of senior practitioners.
We are a semi-faith-based program, grounded in the words, ways, and mission of Jesus — and open to anyone with the curiosity and craft to join us. We're a launching pad for technologists who want their work to matter.
Paired apprenticeship under senior engineers.
Production code review, design critique, and weekly 1:1s. Interns ship to real users in week three. We don't teach bootcamp patterns — we apprentice you to the real thing.
A weekly rhythm of study, sabbath, and direction.
Our formation track is grounded in the Christian tradition — Scripture, prayer, spiritual direction. It's a meaningful part of the program. It is not a doctrinal test. Curiosity and honesty are the only prerequisites.
Nine months embedded with a partner organization.
Real tickets. Real standups. Real outcomes. Partners span 24 churches and mission-aligned orgs across 14 states, plus a handful of for-profit teams building technology for the common good.
Onboarding with your host org. Stack bootcamp. Formation kickoff retreat in Washington, DC.
Paired sprints on live product work. Weekly code review, design critique, and spiritual direction.
You lead a feature end-to-end. You run standup. You mentor the next cohort's first applicants.
Capstone ship. Graduation week at Capital Turnaround. Placement support into full-time roles.
A small team of practitioners — engineers, designers, and pastors — who still ship, still mentor, still take the 8am call.
Rod descends from a line of engineers, carpenters, farmers, and blacksmiths and leads the Information Technology efforts at NCC where he oversees activities and resources that involve electricity and computer chips.
Principal designer with a background leading product teams at Shopify and a small nonprofit fintech. Priya runs the apprenticeship track — code review, design critique, and the weekly studio crit that every intern either loves or fears.
Ashlie has been part of the tripleNERDscore team since 2020, serving as the operational backbone of every client engagement. She manages communication, project tracking, milestone coordination, and deliverable logistics.
“ I expected to become a better engineer. I didn't expect to become a better human in the same nine months. Community Technology taught me that shipping code and shepherding people are the same discipline.
No. Our formation track is grounded in the Christian tradition, but we welcome applicants who are curious, skeptical, or come from other backgrounds. We ask that you engage honestly and respectfully.
Our weekly formation track — Scripture, prayer, spiritual direction — is a meaningful part of the program. It is not a doctrinal litmus test. Your placement and evaluation are based on your work and character.
We hire for curiosity and craft as much as skill. A portfolio of real work — shipped code, open-source contributions, design projects — matters more than a degree. We assess through a paired build session, not a whiteboard.
With partner churches and mission-aligned nonprofits across 14 states, plus select for-profit partners building technology for the common good. You'll rank preferences; we match based on fit.