Product Development Intern

DormWay Labs Alpha Cohort (Winter 2025)10-Week Product Development ProgramNov 18 January 58 hrs / week 20 studentsThe RoleYoull spend ten weeks inside the machine with us seeing how DormWay keeps students from discovering assignments at midnight. This isnt a lecture series. Its an applied product-development apprenticeship wrapped around real deadlines, real test builds, and real shipping pressure. Labs is where we prove January will be calm instead of chaos.Why This ExistsDormWay is the deadline safety net for college. To ship something students can trust on day one, we run every feature through twenty different campuses, workflows, and syllabi. Labs is how we get confidence that the safety net holds everywhere, not just at Michigan.What Youll DoWeekly Sessions  Join learning reviews where we break down architecture, design tradeoffs, and why certain bugs matter more than others.Active Testing  Use real internal tools, identify issues in test builds, and help us reproduce edge cases before they cascade.Observe Real Engineering  Watch us turn this is broken into fixed and deployed in hours, not weeks.Pre-Launch Work  Stress-test flows, run regression passes, and make sure hundreds of thousands of deadlines wont slip through in January.Its hands-on but supervised youre learning, not carrying a pager.What Youll LearnAgentic Coding Tools  The exact prompts and pipelines we use to stay current in hours, not weeks.Testing & Analysis  How to isolate issues, document reproducible cases, and understand deadline-risk tradeoffs.Small-Team Velocity  How two people ship for 6,200+ campuses without drowning.Real Decision-Making  What we prioritize when everything feels important, and why some fixes ship instantly while others wait.Time CommitmentMon (30 min)  Weekly kickoff.Wed (60 min)  Office hours; debugging, architecture, Q&A.Fri (async)  Drop test observations in Slack.Weekends (optional)  I may stream engineering work.Bi-weekly (60 min)  All-hands to walk through new features.58 hours / week. Manageable, but meaningful.Targets Youll Help Us Hit300+ issues identified (clean, reproducible)50+ syllabus formats validated20 campuses synced + tested0 critical issues on January launch dayThat last one is the whole point.What You Get Real product-development experience (actual tools, not mocks) A front-row seat to how we debug, prioritize, and ship A LinkedIn recommendation from Ethan (30 years shipping products) Portfolio-ready examples of testing, analysis, and decision-making Priority consideration for future roles A cohort of builders across campusesWhat DormWay Gets Confidence DormWay works everywhere Edge cases documented before students hit them Syllabi to test against (50+ formats and counting) Plain-language feedback when something feels confusing A calmer January for thousands of studentsWho Thrives HereYouve built something anything.You have an iPhone (iOS 17+).Youre privacy-minded.Youre curious how real products get shipped.You can give 58 hours / week.Youre at any campus, big or tiny we want broad coverage.How Selection WorksWere taking the first 20 who fit. Applications open Nov 14 and close once we fill or we hit Nov 18. This is an educational, non-compensated program built under Department of Labor primary-beneficiary guidelines. You may be able to get academic credit.Why ApplyIf you want to see how actual product teams operate the tradeoffs, the reasoning, the messy parts Labs gives you a backstage pass. By the time we hit January, youll know exactly how a campus-scale system goes from we hope this works to were confident it will.This is where we make launch week feel calm instead of chaos.

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