Software Engineer Intern
Posted 16 Jun 2025
Advertised as “Software Engineer Intern, Backend Development”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Internship
No salary listed for this role.
Field of studyComputer Science (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
About Appier
Appier (TSE: 4180) is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that empowers businesses to create value through cutting-edge AdTech and MarTech solutions. Founded in 2012 with the vision of “Making AI Easy by Making Software Intelligent,” Appier helps businesses turn AI into ROI through its Ad Cloud, Personalization Cloud, and Data Cloud—each powered by Agentic AI that enables autonomous, adaptive, and real-time decision-making. Today, Appier operates 17 offices across APAC, the US, and EMEA, and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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 2-4 days (16-32 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.
[ Due to the hybrid work model, this position cannot be fully remote and requires working in the Taiwan office. ]
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]
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Proficient in building web services on a Linux platform.
- Strong skills in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Go or Java.
- Solid understanding of Network API Design principles (e.g., REST or GraphQL).
- Familiar with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, etc.).