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# Backend Engineer Intern (6 months starting February 2027) at Equativ

- **Company:** Equativ
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/equativ/bc00695c-eb9a-4f50-bb4d-f186892fbb3d

## Job description

👫 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 6 million requests per second (+500 billion/day) handled by 3,500+ instances with less than 250ms response time. Our innovation team based in Paris, Nantes, Limoges, Montreal, Krakow and Berlin is composed of 190+ 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 exchange backend development teams. Your specific team’s mission is to improve our ad exchange platform seeking better performance, 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 of our platform (e.g. scaling it for the cloud).  As an intern, you’ll get to learn and grow within an international team composed of several areas of expertise. You will join the Auctioning feature team, made up of 5 developers, a Product Owner and a QA engineer, working at the heart of our real-time auction engine. 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 of software engineers, QA and DevOps.

- Ship your applications with GitLab and ArgoCD/Kubernetes.

- Improve our end-to-end test reliability and tooling.

- Participate in maintaining our stack to the newest .NET release.

- Participate in our daily features development.

- Monitor your features in production with Grafana and Datadog.

- Work on data flows with Kafka, Aerospike, SQL Server and BigQuery.

- Develop with Claude Code and help improve our AI efficiency.

- Learn a lot by working on one of the biggest productions of French tech!

## About you 💪

Must have:

- Master’s or engineering-school student looking for an internship.

- Professional efficiency in verbal and written English.

- Serious doubts about the saying “Testing is Doubting”.

- Passion for writing, reviewing and judging high-quality and maintainable code following agile principles.

- Appetite for learning and technical challenge.

- Coding skills with object-oriented programming (C#, Java, C++…).

- SQL basics.

Nice to have:

- Experience with modern .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core).

- Curiosity about performance and low-level .NET (memory, GC).

- Interest in distributed systems and cloud development.

- Personal projects with code sharing, we’re curious about your art!

👋 About us Equativ, a leading independent ad platform, brings scale and simplicity to digital advertising.

Following its recent merger with Sharethrough and the acquisition of Kamino Retail, advertisers, media owners, and technology partners rely on Equativ’s advanced SSP, curation, and retail media services and technology to achieve maximum business outcomes.

With a focus on privacy-first programmatic video, CTV, and data-driven solutions, Equativ enables clients to activate across the digital ecosystem while protecting consumer privacy.

The company’s global expertise is also backed by a team of over 750 employees across 19 countries.

As a proud recipient of the HappyIndex@Work label, Equativ is committed to providing a dynamic, flexible workplace where employees thrive, grow, and excel in both their professional and personal lives. 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 ta-team@equativ.com

## About Equativ

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Equativ is a global, independent end-to-end media platform that provides AI-driven ad tech solutions for advertisers, publishers, broadcasters, and retailers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by Bridgepoint in 2023; $406M in total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France
- **Founded**: 2005 (originally as Smart AdServer)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (born from within a premium publisher)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Advertising Technology (AdTech), Digital Media, Programmatic Advertising
- **Target customers**: B2B — serving advertisers, publishers, broadcasters, and retailers (50,000+ brands globally)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To make advertising better and smarter, leading to better marketing results while consumers benefit from an improved and elevated advertising experience. [equativ.com](https://www.equativ.com/company)

## Products & Services
- **Maestro by Equativ**: A unified platform for buyers and sellers offering AI-powered optimization, real-time insights, and cross-channel campaign management with precision and safety.
- **AI-Powered Programmatic Agents**: A suite of tools that automate planning, optimization, reporting, and campaign diagnostics, cutting planning time by up to 40%.
- **Creative Ad Enhancements**: Proprietary technology that automatically enhances standard ad formats (CTV, Video, Display, Native) to boost engagement, comprehension, and conversions, powered by attention and cognitive behavior research.
- **Retail Media Solutions**: Monetization tools for retailers and agencies to drive conversions and reach high-intent shoppers across on-site and off-site channels.
- **CTV Stack**: Comprehensive connected TV offering including server-side ad insertion (SSAI), an ad server, and shoppable formats for a user-centric viewer experience.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **€197.1M**; Total Funding of **$406M**
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Acquired by **Bridgepoint** (2023). Key acquisitions include LiquidM (2019) and Sharethrough.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~596 (+18.3% YoY, +111 people); global team across 18 countries and 21 offices; serves 50,000+ brands globally. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/equativ)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Independence & Transparency**: One of the most trusted independent ad tech platforms, operating without the conflicts of ownership by a major walled garden.
- **20+ Year Track Record**: Longevity and deep expertise in the ad ecosystem, having evolved from a premium publisher's internal ad server.
- **Vertically Integrated & Comprehensive**: A single, unified platform covering supply, demand, data, and creative — from ad server to DSP to retail media.
- **Attention-Focused Innovation**: Creative enhancement technology built on research into attention and cognitive behavior, providing a differentiated value proposition.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI and Automation**: Heavy investment in AI-powered agents to streamline campaign management and reduce manual work for buyers and sellers.
- **CTV Expansion**: Building out a comprehensive CTV stack with SSAI, shoppable ads, and enhanced viewability.
- **Retail Media**: Scaling its retail media solution to help retailers and brands monetize inventory and connect with high-intent shoppers.
- **Sustainability**: Offering sustainability-focused offerings as part of its platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes three core values: **Be Brave** (ownership, trust, continuous improvement), **Be Thoughtful** (work-life balance, DE&I, integrity), and **Be Stronger Together** (collaboration, global programs). [equativ.com](https://www.equativ.com/careers/culture)
- **DE&I**: DEIB is at the forefront of company values, celebrating differences in age, ethnicity, race, religion, and more.
- **Flexible Work**: Flexible work schedules and generous paid time off are offered.
- **Global & Collaborative**: A team of 750+ people across 43 nationalities and 21 countries, with 17 offices globally.
- **Benefits**: Includes career acceleration and global learning opportunities, family-focused leave benefits, country-specific pension plans, and a company-wide Globetrotter program.
- **Engineering & Technical Focus**: 20% of the workforce is in technical roles (142 people), with opportunities for growth in a fast-moving AdTech environment.
- **Work Model**: Promotes a hybrid/office policy with a flexible schedule. [equativ.com](https://www.equativ.com/careers)
- **Headcount & Growth**: 596 employees (+18.3% YoY), indicating a scaling company with room for career advancement. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/equativ)

## Sources
1. [equativ.com - Company Overview](https://www.equativ.com/company)
2. [equativ.com - Careers](https://www.equativ.com/careers)
3. [equativ.com - Culture](https://www.equativ.com/careers/culture)
4. [linkedin.com - Equativ Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/equativ)
5. [equativ.com - Homepage](https://www.equativ.com/)

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