Software Engineer – Intern – Studentjob.co.uk

Job Purpose

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

Job Context

• 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 within an agile multi‑disciplined team
• Apply knowledge in programming languages to solve real‑world problems

Key Accountabilities

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

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

• Working towards a degree in a relevant subject (Software Engineering or equivalent)
• Ability to analyse the scope of tasks
• Interpret and contribute to requirements and specifications
• Create concept designs
• Work with other engineers to design and debug systems
• Documentation skills 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 communication protocols such as TCP/IP
• Object‑oriented design
• UML
• Linux operating systems
• Database principles (basic SQL and/or database terminology)
• Methodical approach to problem solving
• Capable of driving ideas/projects forward
• Ability to work effectively to meet agreed timescales and plan project activities
• Delivering work packages, not just researching ideas or theorising
• Well organised and proactive
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• Good interpersonal skills with a pleasant and can‑do attitude

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development of existing and new applications by analysing and identifying areas for modification and improvement
• Contribute to development of new applications to meet customer requirements
• Perform software tests and respond to user emails to monitor, diagnose, and correct performance issues
• Support in developing draft website maps, application models, and image or page templates for review by senior colleagues
• Monitor and identify software defects and suggest corrections for approval by senior colleagues
• Provide initial fault isolation and propose resolution for approval by senior colleagues
• Produce accurate reports by collecting data from standard sources and inputting it into standard formats
• Maintain assigned portals/websites using content creation and management tools and digital media to ensure technical continuity and development standards are met
• Monitor and report on distribution of database resources and provide physical modeling and design services to tune database applications for optimum performance
• Develop personal capabilities through training, coaching, and ongoing education

Additional Education & Experience Requirements

• Post‑Secondary Non‑Tertiary Education
• Sound experience and understanding of straightforward procedures or systems (7 to 12 months)
• Very limited managerial experience (0 to 3 months)

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