Overview
As a consultant engineer at Softwire, you’ll be part of a bright, inclusive, supportive team. You will work directly with our customers to solve some of their biggest challenges, making a genuine difference to people’s lives, businesses and society along the way.
Induction & Training
The induction includes training in AI‑assisted development. You will learn to oversee and refine AI‑generated code, reflecting a shift in the coding world from manual creation to high‑level oversight. This training ensures you can leverage AI for maximum efficiency while focusing on architectural challenges and client value.
Months 3‑15: Working on client projects. With your first project complete, you’ll join one of our teams delivering a client project, usually in our offices but sometimes on a customer site. You’ll get plenty of support throughout, surrounded by helpful colleagues and industry experts to answer all your questions. And with continual peer review of your work, your software engineering skills will quickly rise to new levels.
Alongside your project work, you’ll continue to attend our in‑house training programme. This industry‑leading course lasts six weeks in total, spread over 12 months. It broadens your knowledge in key aspects of professional software engineering, including:
- System design
- Development methodologies
- Additional technologies
Responsibilities
You will move beyond simply doing what is asked; you will advise clients on the best course of action using your domain knowledge. As AI handles more of the routine coding, your role will focus on architectural oversight and strategic partnership.
Career Path & Growth
Month 16 and beyond: Choose your career path. We continue to invest in your development and promote from within. Many of our senior staff joined at entry level and have followed a range of career paths. And, as the individuals we’ve highlighted below show, you’ll quickly get opportunities to take on added responsibility. You might decide you love leading project delivery, you might enjoy overseeing a technology team, you may find consulting is your passion, or you could specialise in areas such as design, or data science and artificial intelligence.
Success Stories
Zoe Cunningham – Zoe joined our entry‑level intake in 2000. She’s since worked in virtually every part of the business, including delivery management, recruitment, operations management and sales, before becoming managing director at age 33.
Harry Cummings – Part of the 2008 cohort, Harry joined as a coder, before starting to oversee development teams as a technical lead. He then joined our Advisory division, where he’s now a lead consultant, helping customers shape their technical solutions and delivery processes.
Ying – One of our 2012 entry‑level intake. Working initially as a software engineer, she quickly started taking on project management responsibilities. She’s now one of our senior delivery leads, ensuring we meet our targets around budget, timeframe and client satisfaction.
Desired Candidate Profile
- A passion for solving real‑world challenges: First and foremost, you’ll get a buzz from building things that make a difference to businesses, people and society. We also want to see passion for coding – any experience you have is a bonus.
- A consultancy mindset: You are genuinely excited about working with customers to solve their problems. You’ll need to be comfortable in new environments, quickly building relationships with new clients to get to the heart of their businesses and their needs. You are confident discussing technical ideas with people with varying degrees of digital literacy, communicating clearly with any audience.
- A positive, can‑do team player: You love pushing the team to greater heights by helping colleagues out wherever you can. You always look to improve yourself and others. Your default answer to a question is “yes”, and you make big problems seem small.
- Extreme STEM skills: We are looking for exceptional logical analysis and reasoning capabilities.
Notable Projects
We played an important role in the Moorfields Eye Hospital/DeepMind collaboration, which demonstrated how AI could help doctors fast‑track patients with serious eye diseases. We built the system that runs the BBC Live Events websites, sharing content from Glastonbury, the Reading and Leeds festivals, and the BBC Proms. We have been the long‑term digital partner for David Lloyd Leisure, building its mobile app, booking system and numerous other capabilities.
Diversity & Culture
Of course, there’s more to Softwire than building software. We’re working hard to nurture a diverse, inclusive and supportive culture, where people love what they do and feel inspired by working with some of the best minds in the business. We also have a generous budget for a varied programme of staff events and activities, with employees, not management, deciding how the money is spent. We believe we’re the best company in the UK to work for and we have awards and review scores to prove it. Check us out on Glassdoor or Best Companies.
Benefits
Starting salary of £45,000. 50% of company profits paid as profit share.
25 days annual holiday with the option to buy or sell, plus charity days. Generous maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
Consistently one of the best places to work in the UK.
Dedicated budget for staff activities and entertainment.
Great offices, plus free on‑site gym and subsidised restaurant in London.
A workplace that promotes diversity and inclusivity.
Annual company holiday abroad.
We’ve been at or very near the top of the Best Companies To Work For for many years.
How to Apply
Learn more and apply.
Our entry‑level timeline: What to expect.
The people we’re looking for: Are we a good match?
The benefits package: Great pay, profit‑sharing, and more.
Application process: Step by step.
More about Softwire: What you’ll be part of.
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