Conduct competitive, user, usability, and concept research for music discovery and streaming products. Interview Gen Z users, analyze feedback and trends, maintain research repositories and competitive trackers, monitor online conversations, and translate findings into actionable product recommendations. Present recurring insights and own an independent research project while collaborating with product, design, marketing, community, and R&D teams.

Paid, remote product design internship supporting user and competitive research for music software products. Responsibilities include interviewing Gen Z users, usability and concept testing, competitor tracking, social listening, survey support, research repository management, and synthesizing findings into actionable recommendations. The intern will participate in product team rituals, own a self-directed research project, and present findings to product and design stakeholders.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable backend APIs for music catalog, search, recommendation, personalization, and user interaction. Design data models, integrate third-party metadata and streaming services, optimize performance, implement observability, and ensure reliability. Establish engineering standards, review code, mentor developers, evaluate technologies, and collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams. The role requires extensive backend experience and expertise across cloud platforms, deployment, databases, caching, messaging, and CI/CD.