Backend Engineer Intern — Hands-on, Production-Grade Learning (Hybrid, Amsterdam)

Creativeclicks; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 13,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work setup

Fully paid commuting expenses

Mentoring from experienced engineers

Lunch in the office

Job summary

Creative Clicks is seeking a Backend Engineer (Intern) in Amsterdam to join our engineering team. You’ll contribute to real production code, work on services and databases, and learn how a production system behaves under load.

You’ll be supported by senior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and ongoing feedback. Expect hands-on use of AI coding tools to accelerate learning and coding velocity from day one.

Qualifications

• Basic programming skills in at least one backend language.
• Understanding of relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and ability to write simple SQL.
• Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code.
• Familiarity with Git and basic version control workflows.
• Good English, enough to read documentation and communicate with an international team.
• A genuine willingness to learn and take feedback.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend features under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Write and optimize SQL queries, and work with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) in day-to-day tasks.
• Integrate with internal and third-party APIs.
• Use AI coding assistants to write, refactor, and debug code.
• Write tests and help keep our codebase clean and readable.
• Take part in code reviews, stand-ups, and technical discussions.
• Investigate bugs, reproduce issues, and propose fixes.

Skills

Backend programming

Relational databases

AI coding tools

Git

English communication

Willingness to learn

Education

Student in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

Claude Code

Docker

GraphQL

Job description

Creative Clicks is seeking a Backend Engineer (Intern) in Amsterdam to join our engineering team. You’ll contribute to real production code, work on services and databases, and learn how a production system behaves under load.

You’ll be supported by senior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and ongoing feedback. Expect hands-on use of AI coding tools to accelerate learning and coding velocity from day one.