Data Engineer Intern, Finance Experience

We’re here to help make tech reliable, affordable, and better than new. We're a global marketplace for refurbished devices, helping lower our collective environmental impact by providing trustworthy, affordable tech with 92% less carbon emissions than new.

Yep, you read that right. Turns out refurbished tech is way better for the planet than new. In fact, With every device purchased on Back Market, our positive impact on the planet grows. From our Customer Care representatives to our software engineer, every individual at Back Market cuts the planet — and consumers — a break. Our mission is simple: to do more with what we already have.

Are you ready to join us?

We’re looking for a Data Engineering Intern to join our Finance Experience team in Paris. This internship offers hands-on exposure across two key business domains—Finance and Payment Support—where you’ll help the team build data foundations, automate workflows, and explore AI-powered solutions to improve operational efficiency.

As an intern, you’ll assist and participate in data engineering and automation initiatives that support Finance and Payment operations. With guidance from experienced engineers, you will contribute to making support processes more reliable, scalable, and data-driven.

You will:

• Participate in building and maintaining automated data pipelines (ELT/ETL), helping ensure data is available, fresh, and usable for operational needs

• Assist in structuring a knowledge database for support use cases by understanding impacted domains, identifying key datasets, and automating data collection/aggregation for AI agent access

• Contribute to automation & AI initiatives, such as helping prototype AI agents for support requests, building diagnostic helpers for common issues, and creating automated reporting for support metrics

• Optionally participate in analysis and monitoring work by helping define key metrics, creating dashboards, and generating recurring reports for stakeholders

• Mandatory! Currently enrolled in your last year of an Engineering School/Masters University with a Data Engineering specialization and your university can provide an internship agreement

• You have solid foundations in Python and SQL and already have experience in real-world data engineering (other internships, github, personal or student projects).

• You have the ability to learn new software and technologies quickly, being curious about the coding environment you’ll evolve in.

• You are detail-oriented and have the desire and ability to work in a team in an international environment.

• You’re interested in automation and have a basic understanding of AI/ML concepts (bonus: agent frameworks)

• Bonus: You have some familiarity with ETL/ELT concepts and data warehousing (or you’re eager to learn)

• Bonus: You’ve been exposed to workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow (or similar), and you’re curious about tools like dbt.

• You are fluent in English - French is a plus.

• You are looking for a 6 month, full-time role (35h/week), internship from March/April 2026

• You are authorized to work in France (EU Nationality or in possession of valid student visa/work permit).

• Starting date: March/April 2026

• Duration: 6 months

• Full-time internship (35h/week - Monday to Friday)

• Location: Paris, France

• Video-call Interview with the Campus Tech Recruitment Manager (30min)

• Video-call Technical fit interview : Live coding + open talk (60 min) with the tutor and another engineer from the team

• Video-call Team fit interview with 1 other member from the team (30 min)

At Back Market, we’re committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives — it’s one of the reasons we’re such a high-scoring certified B Corp company (93.2). On average, 40% of our engineering students continue employment at Back Market.

No matter your role and seniority level, you’ll enjoy impact-driven work with hands-on career development in an innovative, driven, and fast-paced environment — with benefits to match, like:

- A mission driven work environment where your day to day makes an impact on the planet. Seriously.

- Hybrid work environment, with 2 remote days a week and 1 remote work week per quarter, plus 3 flex days.

- Employee Resource Groups, including mentorship programs, comprehensive accessibility policies, and cultural competency training.

At Back Market, we strive to create a workplace that embodies the world we’re trying to change. We’ve embedded our diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into our DNA — from dedicated staff to employee resource groups to our company values.

We know that the perfect background for a role doesn’t mean the perfect fit — we encourage you to apply for a role even if you think you may not have all the qualifications.

If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.