AI-Driven Backend Engineer Intern

Musixmatch; Bologna; In loco; EUR 8100 - 9700; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Musixmatch is seeking a Software Engineer Intern to join the Services Engineering team in Bologna. You will design and build an MCP-based ecosystem that provides an AI-assisted toolchain for data investigation, metadata auditing, anomaly detection, and automated reporting on a large-scale music catalog.

This extracurricular internship lasts 6 months with a monthly reimbursement of €800, and involves hands-on work with production data, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices including Docker,

Competenze

• Good knowledge of at least one of Node.js/TypeScript, Python, or PHP (backend development, async processing).
• Basic understanding of database querying and modeling (SQL and/or NoSQL).
• Interest in AI tooling, LLMs, and the Model Context Protocol (Tools, Resources, Prompts).
• Interest in cloud technologies and DevOps (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform are a plus).
• Understanding of Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Problem-solving mindset and willingness to learn.
• Ability to work in English.

Mansioni

• Explore and map the Recording music catalog architecture, spanning relational data (MySQL/Aurora) and non-relational document stores (DynamoDB).
• Build specialized MCP servers, skills, and tools exposing catalog data, resources, and prompt templates to AI agents.
• Implement operations guardrails such as access controls, read-only permissions, rate limiting, and query execution safeguards, so agents can query live stores without compromising production stability.
• Instrument and monitor inference, context window, embedding, and query costs, treating cost as an engineering metric alongside accuracy and latency.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy to Kubernetes via Helm using our standard Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) workflow
• Run staged testing with the Operations team, promote to production, and support a company-wide beta release
• Debug, test, and improve backend services across the stack

Conoscenze

Node.js/TypeScript

Python

PHP

SQL

NoSQL

English

Git

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Strumenti

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Descrizione del lavoro

Musixmatch is seeking a Software Engineer Intern to join the Services Engineering team in Bologna. You will design and build an MCP-based ecosystem that provides an AI-assisted toolchain for data investigation, metadata auditing, anomaly detection, and automated reporting on a large-scale music catalog.

This extracurricular internship lasts 6 months with a monthly reimbursement of €800, and involves hands-on work with production data, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices including Docker,