Software Engineering Placement Programme

Overview

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. We’re passionate about fostering collaboration, and that’s why every developer carries the same title of ‘Software Engineer’. We believe in a level playing field where your voice and ideas count, regardless of your experience level. You’ll have regular one-on-one chats with a dedicated mentor who’ll offer you advice and support. We’ve had plenty of success stories on our Placement Programme, with many engineers returning to us after completing their degree. One example is Josie, who you can see tell her story. If you are keen to learn more about our company culture, you can read about: We Find Solutions, We Drive Change, and We Care.

The Software Engineering team is part of the Business Systems division. 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 value to our customers. We have a hybrid working environment, where we typically spend 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.

About You

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

• You’ll need to be studying an undergraduate degree that includes a year in industry.
• You have a passion for technology

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation with a strong sense of purpose and a commercial edge. We provide mobility solutions to over 700,000 customers and their families across the UK, offering cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs with insurance, maintenance, and breakdown assistance. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.6 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 employee around 1,500 people based across four locations: London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Coalville. We know that our people are key to our success and our aim is 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 for meeting our customers\\\’ needs; in return, we offer flexibility to balance personal and work life.