Software Engineer - Intern

Job Purpose

This is an exciting opportunity to enhance your existing skillset and gain technical knowledge and experience by working alongside highly skilled & experienced senior engineers.

Throughout the placement, you will be delivering a series of work packages aimed at enhancing the capabilities of existing products, with scope to help define the technical solution under guidance from your colleagues.

This is a hands‑on role, gaining exposure to all elements of the software and product development lifecycle, adopting the latest industry standard tools and technologies stacks.

• Exposure to good engineering practices to design and implement new features for existing products
• Analyse scope and requirements, identify and solve problems
• Develop skills to provide innovative solutions to technical problems
• Work with‑in an agile multi‑disciplined team
• Apply knowledge in programming languages to solve real‑world problems

The role will be based in the UK, with some level of working from home negotiable.

• Deliver agreed work packages on time and to the agreed quality/standards
• Coordinate and deliver in cooperation with other project teams

• Working towards a degree in a relevant subject (Software Engineering or equivalent).

• Ability to analyse the scope of the tasks
• Interpret and/or contribute to requirements and specifications
• Create concept designs
• Work with other engineers to design and debug systems
• Documentation skills to be able to articulate and record design decisions and technical aspects of the work packages developed

• Java or Python programming languages
• Basic understanding of testing

• Experience of communications protocols such as TCP IP
• Object Orientated Design
• UML
• Linux operating systems
  
  Database principles (basic SQL and/or database terminology)

• Methodical approach to problem solving
• Capable of driving ideas/projects forward
• Able to work effectively to meet agreed timescales having considered and planned the project activities
• Delivering work packages, not just researching ideas or theorising
• Well organised
• Proactive
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• Good interpersonal skills with a pleasant and can‑do attitude