Backend Software Engineering Intern

About AppLovin

AppLovin makes technologies that help businesses of every size connect to their ideal customers. The company provides end-to-end software and AI solutions for businesses to reach, monetize, and grow their global audiences. For more information about AppLovin, visit: .

To deliver on this mission, our global team is composed of team members with life experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives that mirror our developers and customers around the world. At AppLovin, we are intentional about the team and culture we are building, seeking candidates who are outstanding in their own right and also demonstrate their support of others.

Fortune recognized AppLovin as one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area 2022 and is a Certified Great Place to Work in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Check out the rest of our awards HERE .

A Day in the Life

As a member of our Ad Serving Platform team, you’ll solve technical challenges, including: design and architecture of a back-end handling billions of requests per day, services that extract key analytics from large datasets containing billions or trillions of records, creating high-availability low-latency systems that are distributed across multiple data centers. This will be a 2-3 month long internship and start in summer 2024.

Basic Qualifications

• You are a Junior, Senior, or Masters level student (and are currently working towards earning a BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field)
• You love to program, solve problems, and build stuff
• Have experience programming in Java/Python
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Have experience with object-oriented programming
• Have experience working with SQL databases

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience building highly scalable, low latency systems
• Have experience with C++
• Previous Software Engineering Internships
• Non-academic coding experience (i.e. hackathons, code challenges, personal projects, GitHub, Open Source, etc.)
• Understanding of the software development life cycle

AppLovin provides a competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance rewards approach. Total compensation at AppLovin is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Depending on the position offered, equity, and other forms of incentive compensation (as applicable) may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to dental, vision, and other benefits.

US base pay range (total compensation package will be commensurate with experience)

$45—$60 USD

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