Job Description
Location: UK (London preferred but not required)
Duration options: 6–12 weeks, 6 months, or 1-year placement
Industry: Fintech \ Music
Start dates: Rolling, with primary internship intake beginning Summer 2026
Find us at: https://stage.tech/
Contact us at: intern@stage.tech
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
Summary
Stage is hiring a Software Engineering Intern to help develop our platform (Salt) that processes music metadata and royalty information at scale. The software you build will help ensure that tracks are correctly matched and credited across major digital platforms such as Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube, and within catalog workflows used by global music companies including Universal Music.
If you’re excited about building real products and experimenting with new technologies like AI, we want to hear from you. You’ll learn quickly in a fast-moving environment and help ensure music creators get what they deserve. Your work will contribute to real product features that improve how royalties are tracked, verified, and distributed across the industry.
About Salt
https://www.salt.music
The music industry relies on data. When that data is missing or messy, royalties become slow, inaccurate, or sometimes never paid. Creators lose out, businesses waste time chasing information, and payment systems break down.
Salt is fixing this.
We build resilient, cloud-native technology that ensures metadata is captured, connected, and processed correctly from the moment music is created. Our goal is simple:
Make music payments faster, fairer, and more transparent for everyone in the industry.
Role Summary
You will contribute to building the Salt platform and supporting systems, working with modern technologies such as React, TypeScript, AWS, and AI-powered tools. This is a hands-on engineering role with real product impact. You will ship features, learn fast, and collaborate with a product design-led team focused on excellent user experience.
What You’ll Do
* Build features for our front end web applications
* Work with real datasets and scalable architecture
* Inspire and collaborate on design with user-focused product improvements
* Participate in code reviews, sprint planning and defining product requirements
* Learn about music metadata, rights, and royalty payment pipelines
* Learn engineering best practices
Minimum Qualifications
* Very comfortable in at least one programming language
* Experience building personal or academic projects (of any kind, individual or collaborative)
* This can be literally anything, we want to know you’re as passionate about building things as we are
* Passion for software engineering and working with emerging technologies
* Strong interest in front end engineering
* Strong interest in design
* UK based and either completed or currently studying a degree
* Enthusiasm to learn and iterate quickly
* You’ll be contributing to and shipping real products
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with React and TypeScript
* Strong UX and visual design interest or portfolio
* Experience with personal or university projects (website and GitHub links very welcome)
* London based or able to work hybrid with our team
The Interview Process
* Initial Interview
* Informal call to learn more about you and your interests.
* Take-Home Technical Task
* React, TypeScript, UI/UX.
* Final Technical Interview
* Demo and walkthrough of your solution.
We take the time to review every project or link you share.
How to Apply
We review applications on a rolling basis, and the deadline for this intake is 27 February 2026. Early applications are strongly encouraged.
To apply, please email intern@stage.tech with:
* Your CV
* A link to your portfolio or project work (GitHub, personal website, or academic projects welcome)
* Your preferred internship duration
* – 6–12 weeks, 6 months, or 1-year placement
* Your earliest possible start date
* (Optional) A short note about why you’re interested in Salt and what you’d like to learn or work on
Please use the subject line: “Software Engineering Internship Application – [Your Name]”
Salary: Competitive for internship level.