Description

• Gain hands-on experience in a real engineering environment with production impact.
• Work alongside experienced engineers and technical leaders.
• Opportunity to contribute to meaningful, customer-facing products.
• Structured learning and development throughout your placement.
• Exposure to modern technologies, tooling, and best practices in a SaaS company.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively within an agile squad under the guidance of a Technical Lead, contributing to technical solutions, bug fixes, and feature delivery.
• Write, test, and ship production-ready code with support from Project Leads and Senior Developers.
• Troubleshoot, analyse, and resolve issues in large-scale distributed systems that process high volumes of requests.
• Explore and understand complex codebases, making improvements to maintainability, performance, and overall quality.
• Contribute to delivering features and small-scale projects from inception through to release as your confidence grows.
• Identify root causes of issues and propose practical, scalable solutions.
• Apply critical thinking to challenge assumptions, identify edge cases, and improve engineering outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to refine requirements and ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Continuously improve your technical skills through feedback, code reviews, and retrospectives.
• Contribute to maintaining high-quality, scalable, and secure software.

• How to build high-quality software that delivers value to users.
• Full end-to-end software engineering processes in a product-led organisation.
• Balancing technical implementation with business priorities.
• Full-stack development across frontend, backend, and databases.
• Working with complex, large-scale enterprise applications hosted in the cloud.
• Industry-standard tools such as Git, Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Best practices in performance optimisation, scalability, and cybersecurity.
• Techniques for managing risk and minimising production impact.
• Exposure to multiple languages and frameworks including .NET, JavaScript, SQL, and more.
• Approaches to solving complex engineering challenges at scale.

What we're looking for from you

• Currently studying Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline (seeking a placement year).
• Experience with at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g., .NET/C#, Java, or similar).
• Understanding of software development principles and best practices.
• Basic working knowledge of SQL, including writing and understanding queries.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) is desirable.
• Exposure to web development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy and sell additional days)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to Learning & Development platform
• ‎Life Insurance
• Auto Enrolment Pensions
• ‎Healthshield (Cashback on dental check-ups and fillings, eye tests, physiotherapy, prescriptions and much more
• Reimburse for usage of personal mobile phone
• ‎Free Gym membership and Free Friday lunch for office based staff

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