As an IT intern at YourSurprise you will be fully part of the IT team, consisting of around 30 engineers with expertise in software development, data science, testing and much more. The team consists of mainly Dutch speaking people, however we have some international colleagues as well.

You will be placed in one of our ships (an autonomous team responsible for a specific domain or project), which all operate in a different field of YourSurprise. Together we will determine which ship and project will fit your ambitions.

Who will you be learning from?

Software is one of the most important things that causes growth at YourSurprise. Whether it is the personalization software, automating our production department, forecasting the amount of gifts we have to produce on a certain day, we all implemented it ourselves.

Your colleagues are professionals with high ambitions. Every day they are working on the core of YourSurprise and improving it little by little. Most colleagues are using techniques like PHP, Typescript and React, which are our main programming languages, however we have colleagues specialised in testing, data science, and setting up our cloud infrastructure as well. For your internship, you will be assigned your own buddy ( internship supervisor). This will be one of our colleagues, depending on which ship and project you choose.

What projects do we have?

Based on your ambitions and internship type you will be placed in one of our IT related ships or assigned a specific project to do research. Some of the projects we have in mind right now are:

Personalisation Software: Revamping the way personalisation is handled. On both the customer experience as the technical handling of personalisation
Customer Retention / MySurprise: Building a environment on our webshop where customers can handle their data, order and are able to make more purchases
CRM: Making sure that all customer communication is as efficient as possible. By developing our own CRM and API’s related to that.
Production Efficiency: Building software to support our production facility to produce orders as efficiently as possible.

If you would like to graduate at YourSurprise, here are some topics you could work on:

Finding out whether low code is usable within YourSurprise;
Researching AI possibilities for example our Customer Service team, Personalisation tool or something else;
Researching how we can make use of (Google) cloud workstations to not have a local development environment

Curious about one of the above projects, or have a great idea yourself? Let us know and let’s discuss it!

What do we expect from you?

You must be connected to an international Associate, Bachelor or Master Degree;
You are independent, eager to learn and the only thing you want is to become an expert in something that has to do with IT;
You will be using feedback and knowledge from our professionals to get the most out of your internship;
You like to work in and with a team, together we can achieve more!

What is in it for you?

A fun internship in a fast-growing company, in a young and dynamic team;
Support from your personal Buddy (and colleagues) during your internship;
A good internship allowance;
A lunch (for a small fee) and daily fresh fruits;
Infinite cuddles from one of our office dogs;
A dynamic working environment in a brand new building with a gym, bedrooms and even a slide!
With a unique teamspirit, we organise hackathons, LAN-parties, and training/learning possibilities.
The possibility to live in one of our YourSurprise (student) houses during your internship abroad, we even provide you with a YourSurprise bicycle;
A YourSurprise sports club, great parties, fun Friday afternoon drinks and the annual legendary weekend away with the whole company. All on a voluntary basis, of course.
And most importantly: a company where you can develop yourself and feel like a real colleague. Did you know that we have been named the 'Best Learning Company of the Netherlands' in one of the nine sectors in 2024?

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