Backend Engineer Intern — Hands-on, AI-assisted & Mentored

InternHunt; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 12,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentoring from engineers

Hybrid work setup

Lunch provided daily

Job summary

Creative Clicks is seeking a Backend Engineer (Intern) to join our engineering team and grow with us from day one. You will write real code that ships, work on services and databases powering our products, and learn how a production system behaves under load.

You'll be supported by experienced engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and daily discussions about why we build things this way. AI coding tools are part of the workflow to move faster and learn more.

Qualifications

• Basic programming skills in at least one backend language.
• Basic understanding of relational databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL) and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools such as Claude Code.
• Familiarity with Git and version control workflows.
• Good English for reading documentation and teamwork.
• Willingness to learn and take feedback.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend features under guidance of senior engineers.
• Write and optimize SQL queries; work with MySQL/PostgreSQL daily.
• Integrate with internal and third-party APIs.
• Use AI coding assistants to write, refactor, and debug code.
• Write tests and keep codebase clean and readable.
• Participate in code reviews, stand-ups, and discussions.
• Investigate bugs, reproduce issues, and propose fixes.

Skills

Backend basics

Relational databases

AI coding tools

Git / version control

English proficiency

Willingness to learn

Tools

Python

Node.js

Docker

Linux basics

REST APIs

GraphQL

Job description

Creative Clicks is seeking a Backend Engineer (Intern) to join our engineering team and grow with us from day one. You will write real code that ships, work on services and databases powering our products, and learn how a production system behaves under load.

You'll be supported by experienced engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and daily discussions about why we build things this way. AI coding tools are part of the workflow to move faster and learn more.