Backend Engineer Intern (6 months starting February 2027)

Equativ; Paris; On-site; EUR 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Equativ is seeking a backend intern to join the Auctioning feature team at the heart of our real-time auction engine. You’ll work in a fast-growing R&D group, collaborating with engineers, QA and DevOps across multiple areas of expertise.

As part of the team, you’ll participate in production challenges, scale discussions, and learn modern cloud-native practices using .NET, Kubernetes, Kafka and data tooling.

Qualifications

• Must be a Master’s or engineering-school student, looking for an internship.
• Professional efficiency in English (verbal and written).
• Passion for writing, reviewing and maintaining high-quality code following agile principles.
• Appetite for learning and tackling technical challenges.
• Proficient in object-oriented programming (C#, Java, C++).
• Basic SQL knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Work in an agile, international, multi-expertise team of software engineers, QA and DevOps.
• Ship applications with GitLab and ArgoCD/Kubernetes.
• Improve end-to-end test reliability and tooling.
• Participate in keeping the stack up to date with the latest .NET release.
• Contribute to daily feature development and production monitoring.

Skills

C#

Java

C++

SQL

English

Object-oriented programming

Education

Master’s or engineering-school student

Tools

GitLab

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Grafana

Datadog

Kafka

Aerospike

SQL Server

BigQuery

Claude Code

Job description

About the team

At Equativ, we’re on a mission to develop advertising technologies that empower our customers to reach their digital business goals. This means that we rely on massively scalable, widely distributed, highly available, and efficient software systems; the platform deals with over 6 million requests per second (+500 billion/day) handled by 3,500+ instances with less than 250ms response time.

Your mission

You will join our fast-growing R&D within the exchange backend development teams. Your specific team’s mission is to improve our ad exchange platform seeking better performance, higher maintainability and faster scalability. As a member of the team, you’ll get to work on production challenges, whether they are short-term focused (e.g. improving an algo to save CPU) or shaping the future of our platform (e.g. scaling it for the cloud). As an intern, you’ll get to learn and grow within an international team composed of several areas of expertise. You will join the Auctioning feature team, made up of 5 developers, a Product Owner and a QA engineer, working at the heart of our real-time auction engine. You’ll report directly to a Senior Engineer in this team.

What You’ll Do

• Work in an agile, international and multi-expertise team composed of software engineers, QA and DevOps.
• Ship your applications with GitLab and ArgoCD/Kubernetes.
• Improve our end-to-end test reliability and tooling.
• Participate in maintaining our stack to the newest .NET release.
• Participate in our daily features development.
• Monitor your features in production with Grafana and Datadog.
• Work on data flows with Kafka, Aerospike, SQL Server and BigQuery.
• Develop with Claude Code and help improve our AI efficiency.
• Learn a lot by working on one of the biggest productions of French tech!

About You

Must have

• Master’s or engineering-school student looking for an internship.
• Professional efficiency in verbal and written English.
• Serious doubts about the saying “Testing is Doubting”.
• Passion for writing, reviewing and judging high-quality and maintainable code following agile principles.
• Appetite for learning and technical challenge.
• Coding skills with object-oriented programming (C#, Java, C++…).
• SQL basics.

Nice to have

• Experience with modern .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core).
• Curiosity about performance and low-level .NET (memory, GC).
• Interest in distributed systems and cloud development.
• Personal projects with code sharing, we’re curious about your art!

About us

Equativ, a leading independent ad platform, brings scale and simplicity to digital advertising. Following its recent merger with Sharethrough and the acquisition of Kamino Retail, advertisers, media owners, and technology partners rely on Equativ’s advanced SSP, curation, and retail media services and technology to achieve maximum business outcomes. With a focus on privacy-first programmatic video, CTV, and data-driven solutions, Equativ enables clients to activate across the digital ecosystem while protecting consumer privacy. The company’s global expertise is also backed by a team of over 750 employees across 19 countries. As a proud recipient of the HappyIndex@Work label, Equativ is committed to providing a dynamic, flexible workplace where employees thrive, grow, and excel in both their professional and personal lives. Come and lead the charge with us in building a transparent ecosystem based on quality! Equativ is an equal opportunity employer. Equal access to employment, services, and programs are available to everyone, regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you require reasonable accommodation throughout the application and/or interview process, please contact the recruitment team at [e-mail]. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.