About the role
San Francisco, CA • Full-time, In-person
About Nero
Nero is building the monetization rails for interactive livestreaming. We're infrastructure that works alongside existing platforms like Twitch, Instagram and TikTok to let creators monetize their audiences. We're starting with music, but the model extends to gaming, sports, chess, and any vertical where fans pay for direct creator engagement. Watch one of our artists, Sonny Digital, explaining it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrZXXdcjsWo&t=3946s
And if you couldn't tell already, we aren't another enterprise SaaS company or an AI wrapper startup. We're literally reshaping the way artists earn money through livestreams. Creators have earned over $3M reviewing fan-submitted songs, we're at 600k MAU, and we've raised $1.5M from Yamaha Music Innovation Fund, Antler, and various angels from the music industry.
The Role
You'll be the Founding Design Engineer at Nero, working directly with me (Gabe, CTO) to design and build features that don't exist yet.
We need someone who can own complex product problems end-to-end, from UI to database design.
You'll have significant autonomy to create and ship features that directly impacts 100k+ artists and fans per month. Over time, you'll shape the product, feel, and technical architecture.
What you'll work on:
- You'll design the product and shape how Nero actually feels - like what a fan queue looks like, how an artist sees their revenue, what the submission flow does, etc. Always thinking about how our app looks and feel first.
- You'll build whole features, not just the frontend - the data model, the API, the live state. If the queue needs to update instantly across 500 viewers, you build it. If submissions need a new payment flow, you build that too.
Who You Are
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