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Your work will help make development more reliable and smoother for engineers across Smartly.\nFor more information, feel free to take a look at How our Engineers Work at Smartly! \nHere’s What You’ll Do at Smartly…\nBuild with purpose: Contribute to product development used by millions of people, solving challenges that matter.\nLearn by doing: Work alongside experienced mentors and peers in real engineering teams.\nMake a difference: All Smartlies help customers directly by solving technical challenges, providing support, and improving our product at scale.\nHere’s What We’re Looking For…\nYou’ve recently completed (or are about to complete) your degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\nYou’re starting your software engineering career and are motivated to learn through practical work.\nYou have experience with at least one programming or scripting language and are comfortable learning new tools.\nYou understand the basics of version control, testing and working with a codebase.\nYou care about the experience of the people who use the software you build.\nFull-time availability: This is a 37.5h/week program for the full 6 months. Applicants must be able to commit to the entire duration.\nEntry-level focus: This program is designed as a launchpad into your first permanent, full-time engineering role. If you already have several years of full-time industry experience, this program isn’t the right fit.\nEnglish proficiency: Comfortable working in English, our company language.\nYou’ll be based in our Helsinki office at least 3 days per week (hybrid model).\nYou’re open to feedback and enjoy working with others to improve your work.\nHelpful experience\nYou don’t need to know all of these already. Any exposure to the following would be useful:\nExperience with AI-assisted software development or familiarity with using AI tools at different stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).\nLinux, containers and/or Kubernetes.\nCI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions.\nCloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code or service operations.\nDeveloper tooling, build systems, package management or internal platforms.\nMonitoring, metrics, logs or alerting.\nWhat you’ll do\nImplement and improve tools and services used in our development workflows.\nContribute to CI/CD improvements, such as pipeline reliability, runner visibility, health metrics and alerting.\nHelp improve Devbox and development workflows used by engineers.\nInvestigate issues reported by internal users and help identify lasting fixes.\nCollaborate with Vulcan and partner teams to understand needs and deliver improvements.\nLearn how we operate developer platform services, including their reliability and security requirements.\nHere’s Why You’ll Love Working at Smartly…\nInclusive, global culture: Join a diverse team of 850+ Smartlies from over 60 countries.\nImpact at scale: Build products that shape the future of digital advertising.\nWellbeing matters: Comprehensive healthcare, mental health support, and a healthy work-life balance.\nTotal rewards: Competitive €3,000 monthly base salary + lunch & wellness benefits.\nSmartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. 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Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers.\nSmartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. 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