About Appier
Appier is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier’s mission is turning AI into ROI by making software intelligent. Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe and U.S., and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information.
About the role
Backend Development Intern at Appier works on a wide range of software projects that may extend solution innovation, impact product development processes or contribute directly to Appier’s product lines.
We are currently looking for individuals who can commit to an internship schedule of 2-5 days (16-40 hours) per week. This internship opportunity entails a minimum duration of 6 months, beginning from the present date. We advise prospective applicants to carefully assess their availability for this commitment before submitting their applications.
After the internship, there is an opportunity to transition from an intern to a full-time position.
Responsibilities
- Developing and operate scalable, reliable and maintainable service-based software and related components.
- Improve the scalability and observability of the system
- Proposing and prototyping solutions to ease software development, monitoring of software, etc.
- Profiling and performance tuning of critical components
- Improving system quality with test automation and related toolings.
- Participate in idea brainstorming and contribute ideas to technology, algorithms and products
About you
[Minimum qualifications]
- Working toward a computer science or related technical degree
- Ability to build web services on Linux.
- Good at any of the listed languages: Python / Javascript / Go.
- Good knowledge of Network API Design ( e.g. REST or GraphQL).
- Good understanding of any SQL/NoSQL database (MySQL / MongoDB / Redis / etc.)
- Familiar with git.
- Team player and able to work independently.
- Proactive, good interpersonal and problem-solving skill.
[Preferred qualifications]
- BS degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Good at profiler and debugging tools.
- High performance network service on Linux.
- Design and architect large scale distributed system.
- Design and implement distributed algorithm and data structure.
- Familiar with HTML and Javascript.
- Familiar with Nginx / HAProxy.
- Familiar with Docker / K8s.
- Familiar with operation automation tool (such as Ansible).
- Familiar with continuous integration / continuous deployment.
- Familiar with monitoring and alert system (Prometheus / Nagios).
- Familiar with functional programming.
- Familiar with Amazon Web Service or Google Compute Engine.
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