Software Engineering Placement Programme in Newport, Wales

Are you an undergrad itching to boost your professional and coding skills? Motability Operations has an exciting opportunity for students to join our Software Engineering team for a year in industry. During your placement, you won't be on the side-lines... you'll be right in the thick of it, applying and broadening your skills, being an active member of our agile product teams. Your work will revolve around developing and maintaining production software that matters to both our internal and external customers.

We're passionate about fostering collaboration. We believe in a level playing field where your voice and ideas count, regardless of your experience level. Of course, your colleagues will be there to guide you every step of the way. Plus, you'll have regular one-on-one chats with a dedicated mentor who'll be there to offer you even more advice and support. You'll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, including AI, and apply them to meaningful challenges that make a real difference to our colleagues and customers.

The Software Engineering team is part of the Technology division of the company. Here, we collaborate across diverse agile product teams, consisting of Software Engineers, Quality Engineers, UX Designers, Business Analysts, Product Specialists, Product Owners, and a dedicated Scrum Master. Together, we join our expertise to deliver exceptional value to our customers.

Our 12-month placement programme is built on three key pillars:

• Making an Impact - get involved in meaningful work that adds real value from day one. You'll support your team's goals and help deliver work that makes a difference - for your team, and for the people we do it all for: our customers.
• Personal Development - build your confidence and skills through mentoring, learning sessions and events - all designed to support your growth and goals.
• The Project - work with other students to lead a project that creates real, positive impact.

We are dedicated to unlocking your full potential, and we are eager to welcome a diverse range of skills and talents. Here, we see Software Engineering as more than just writing code. It's about fostering creative collaboration within diverse teams, harnessing each other's strengths to solve real-world challenges and enhance our customers' lives.

We're not looking for the "finished product," and whether you've gained some coding experience through university or as a personal hobby, we're interested in team-players who are enthusiastic about learning, growing, and contributing their unique perspectives. If this resonates with you, and you are eager to make a meaningful impact, we can't wait to hear from you!

Minimum criteria

• Studying in the second year of your degree that includes a year in industry, and eager to start a placement in July 2027.
• Curious about technology and enjoys exploring or learning about new technologies through study, projects or personal interests.
• Passionate about learning, including both technical and non-technical skills.
• Excited to join us in our Bristol office at least three days a week.

Motability Operations is a Disability Confident Leader. As a Disability Confident Leader, any applicant considered to have a disability who meets the minimum criteria as set out in the role profile, will be offered an interview. We also have a responsibility to actively seek out and attract disabled candidates by providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. This involves flexibility and adjusting as required when assessing candidates to ensure those with a disability have the best possible chance of demonstrating their suitability for the job.

Recruitment Stages

• Application Stage - Submit your CV - Response to four questions.
• Video Assessment - One way video assessment - You will answer 5 questions by video response - You are given 6 days to complete your video assessment from when you receive your invitation.
• Virtual Interview - You will meet with one of our Early Careers Recruitment team - These interviews aim to take place between 10th to 12th November 2026.
• Assessment Centre - You will be invited to attend a final stage assessment centre, which typically involves an interview with the two assessors and an activity - The assessment centre is a whole day with us in our Bristol office - The assessment centre for this role is 1st December 2026.

If you are successful at the Assessment Centre stage, you will be offered the role to begin Monday 5th July 2027.

About us

We're the company behind the Motability Scheme. We exist to deliver smart, sustainable solutions that improve our customers' mobility in a fast-changing world. We're the UK's largest car leasing company and we help over 900,000 people get on the road. We employ over 1800 people, across London, Bristol, Edinburgh, and Coalville. We know our people are key to our success, so we aim to create an environment that allows our employees to flourish. We look for highly motivated people with a combination of commercial sense and real enthusiasm to meet our customers' needs.

What we do

We lease a wide range of tailored mobility solutions to people who receive one of the Government's qualifying mobility allowances. Our customers choose a car, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV), scooter or powered wheelchair that best suits their needs. We take care of their insurance, breakdown, servicing and more, as part of our worry-free package. At the end of the lease, our customers can exchange their vehicle for a brand-new model. Each year we sell and move around 200,000 cars. This makes us the largest supplier of single-source vehicles back into the used car market. The Scheme has been providing affordable, all-inclusive motoring for over 45 years. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, with an independent customer satisfaction rating of 9.4 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first-rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.