Appier is hiring a
Software Engineer Backend Development Intern in Taiwan

Summary

The job description is for a Backend Development Intern position at Appier, a SaaS company that uses AI for business decision-making. The internship requires 2-3 days a week commitment for at least 0.5 years. The role involves developing and operating scalable software, improving system performance, proposing solutions, and participating in idea brainstorming.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Developing and operating 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

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