During this exciting 6-month internship, you’ll join our Data team to help design and develop a web-based internal tool that supports how we process and leverage data from millions of users. You’ll be challenged in a fast-paced environment with exceptional learning opportunities. As a respected member of the team, you’ll take ownership of a real engineering project — from backend architecture to user interface.
Hybrid
Entry level/graduate
Data
Virtuagym Software Engineering Internship Summary:
- Host Country: Netherlands
- Category: internships
What this role looks like
During your Software Engineering Internship, you will be involved in the following activities:
- Build a web-based internal application to improve how the data team manages large-scale ingestion and processing pipelines.
- Use the full potential of AI to make it available to the rest of the company
- Develop clean, maintainable backend services to automate tasks and integrate with our databases, APIs and AWS services.
- Create intuitive frontend interfaces using modern web frameworks that allow non-technical teams to interact with data services.
- Work with SQL databases to store, query, and manage structured data securely and efficiently.
- Collaborate with data engineers and analysts to understand key workflows and turn them into reliable internal tools.
- Ensure high code quality through testing, documentation, and continuous integration practices.
- Apply basic principles of data governance and privacy to any data handling in your application.
- Participate in code reviews, agile standups, and team planning sessions to learn industry best practices.
Job requirements
What you will bring to the Data team
- (Currently pursuing) a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
- Comfortable with object-oriented programming, such as Python, PHP, and/or Javascript
- Previous experience with full stack development, including front end as well as back end (and/or APIs)
- Understanding of data structures, databases, and SQL
- Highly motivated and enthusiastic, with great initiative and work ethic
- Full English working proficiency (verbal and written)
- Strong analytical skills and a getting-things-done mentality
- Proactive and full of new ideas
- You are available for a full-time internship for at least 5 months
- You are enrolled throughout the full period of the internship in an EU-university
- You are excited to live and learn in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- An interest in health, fitness, nutrition, productivity and/or workplace wellness are additional assets
- Experiences with AWS are nice to have