At a Glance
- Tasks: Enhance software products and solve real-world problems with senior engineers.
- Company: Join a dynamic tech company focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Flexible working options, competitive pay, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in an agile team with excellent career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Gain hands-on experience in software development and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Pursuing a degree in Software Engineering or related field.
The predicted salary is between 20000 - 30000 £ per year.
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 within 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.
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:
Qualifications: Working towards a degree in a relevant subject (Software Engineering or equivalent).
Skills:
- 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
Essential Knowledge:
- Java or Python programming languages
- Basic understanding of testing
Desirable Knowledge:
- Experience of communications protocols such as TCP IP
- Object Orientated Design
- UML
- Linux operating systems
- Database principles (basic SQL and/or database terminology)
Behavioural Competencies:
- 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
Software Engineer - Intern in Basildon employer: Lucy Group Head Office
At Lucy Group, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer, offering a collaborative work culture that fosters innovation and creativity. Our employees benefit from comprehensive professional development opportunities, competitive remuneration, and a commitment to work-life balance, all within our state-of-the-art Head Office in the UK. Join us to be part of a team that values your contributions and supports your growth in the dynamic field of electro-mechanical design.
