As a Backend Intern, you'll develop, maintain, and enhance APIs, automate processes, and learn engineering best practices under senior engineers' guidance.
About FINN
FINN is an independent platform for car subscriptions from over 30 brands. Subscribe to a car with just a few clicks and it will be delivered directly to your doorstep in just a few days: FINN offers a carefree service and handles insurance, financing, registration, taxes and maintenance. FINN also funds climate action by supporting certified climate protection projects and thus offsets the carbon footprint of every vehicle of all drive types – from production to every mile driven.
FINN was founded in Munich in 2019. The mission: to have a positive impact on people, organizations and the planet through frictionless mobility.
More Information: www.finn.com/
Your Role
As a Backend Intern on our Supply, NPU, and Yield team, you will be a key contributor to our core service operations. You'll support the development, maintenance, and enhancement of APIs that are crucial for the scalability and reliability of our services. Your work will directly contribute to our fleet planning, procurement, and unit-economics calculation processes. You will collaborate closely with our senior engineers and stakeholders, to help build and refine the tools needed to get the right cars for the right deals.
Your Benefits
- This role is based in Germany, with the flexibility to work on-site or remotely in Germany.
- With massive growth potential, FINN allows you to quickly develop and succeed in a highly motivating startup environment with ambitious cross-functional teams.
- Excellent fixed salary: 2.300€ per month.
- Discounted E-Gym Wellpass membership enabling you to be active in various gyms within Germany.
- Our open, modern office in the middle of Munich is known for loads of fun with amazing colleagues and frequent team events.
Your Responsibilities
- Do it, do it, automate it: Simplify, automate and optimize processes that are currently carried out manually using no-code tools as Make or Retool (50%) and solid hard code implementation (50%).
- You build it, you run it: Build features and take ownership for testing, deployment and monitoring of your code. Yes, we believe in Serverless!
- As an active member of our Backend team, you'll learn engineering best practices directly from senior engineers. You will participate in technical discussions and gain firsthand insight into how we design and deliver effective solutions.
Your Profile
- Currently enrolled in a German university, studying an engineering or business discipline with a focus on IT.
- Experience in software engineering with a hands-on mindset.
- Experience with Javascript and Typescript.
- Knowledge in SQL, Docker and building HTTP APIs or with serverless applications is a plus.
- Experience with Git and traditional PR review processes is a plus.
- Experience in a high growth startup or another agile development team is a plus.
- Strong growth mind-set and the motivation to continuously improve.
- Available for a full-time internship lasting 6 months.
- Fluent in English.
Interested in Joining Our Fast-Growing Startup?
Please upload your CV and transcripts online. Anna and Marco are looking forward to your application!
Equal Opportunities for Everyone
FINN is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are open to all groups of people without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
Top Skills
Docker
Http Apis
JavaScript
Serverless Applications
SQL
Typescript
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