Smart AdServer is hiring a

Backend Engineer Intern - 6-months starting February 2025

Paris, France
Internship
👫 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 3 millions requests per second managed by 3,000 servers.

Our innovation team based in Paris, Nantes, Limoges, Krakow and Berlin is composed of 100+ straightforward and energetic engineers working in an Agile environment and ready to tackle the most complex technical challenges.

👇 Your mission 

You will join our fast growing R&D within the backend development teams. Your specific team’s mission is to improve our engines seeking for better performances, 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 (e.g: splitting big apps in microservices) of our platform.  As an intern, you’ll get to learn and grow within an international team composed of several expertises. 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 software engineers, QA and DevOps.
  • Build and Deploy your applications using Gitlab.
  • Improve our End To End tests reliability.
  • Participate in upgrading our stack to the latest .NET 8 release.
  • Participate in our daily features development.
  • Learn a lot by working on one of the biggest productions of French tech!

About you 💪

  • Must have:
  • Masters level looking for an internship.
  • Professional efficiency in verbal and written English.
  • Serious doubts about the saying “Testing is Doubting”
  • Passion for writing high-quality and maintainable code following agile principles.
  • Appetite for learning and technical challenge.
  • You know how to code with C#
  • Proficiency in SQL.

  • Nice to have:
  • First Knowledge of software development experience on a Microsoft stack (.NET Standard, .NET Core 3.1)
  • Personal projects with code sharing, we’re curious about your art! 

Hiring process :

  • Technical test on C#
  • TA exploratory interview
  • Interview with Senior Backend Engineer
  • Interview with Backend Team Lead

👋 About us 
Equativ is the new single name for Smart Adserver, DynAdmic, LiquidM and Nowtilus — four proven innovators in advertising technology. The vertically integrated company provides brand and privacy-safe solutions that empower its clients to achieve maximum impact while respecting the rights of consumers. The union combines client expertise and engineering excellence to serve the interests of both the supply- side and demand-side with equal professionalism and technical sophistication.

Headquartered in Paris and New York, Equativ operates globally with a team of more than 550 people in 20 offices. Equativ offers the market its own independent ad server, SSP, buyer tools, and media services to fulfill the promise of advertising technology. Learn more at Equativ.com.

The company is ranked on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA and in the Financial Times’ FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest-Growing Companies.

Equativ (formerly Smart AdServer) has been awarded the HappyIndex@Work label and is proud to be among the best companies in the ChooseMyCompany ranking, recognized for its flexible working environment.

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 [email protected]
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