Backend Engineer Intern — Real-Time Ad Exchange

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

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.