Software Development Apprenticeship
Are you interested in software development, enjoy solving problems and want to start or change your career in technology? This is an exciting opportunity to join Route 101, a forward-thinking technology solutions provider, as a Software Development Apprentice, becoming part of its exciting Innovation Hub.
Role
- Software Development & Innovation: Contribute to front-end and back-end projects, explore emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and customer experiences through innovative software and AI solutions, including agentic software engineering to automate tasks and workflows.
- Front-End & Back-End Development: Learn to build accessible, user-friendly interfaces using JavaScript, HTML and CSS, contribute to design briefs and mock-ups using Figma, and develop back-end solutions using Python and AWS infrastructure services.
- Customer Requirements & Team Collaboration: Work with colleagues and customers to understand requirements, project scope and expected outcomes, contribute to task estimates, share improvement ideas, identify additional customer needs and participate in daily team meetings to discuss progress, priorities and challenges.
- Version Control, Testing & Quality Assurance: Use Git to manage code and collaborate with developers, participate in peer and code reviews, carry out unit and integration testing, identify bugs and help deliver reliable, accessible, maintainable and scalable software.
- Secure Development, Documentation & Maintenance: Follow coding standards and secure-development policies, complete security training and raise potential vulnerabilities appropriately. Record issues, update project briefs and technical documentation, maintain reusable components and templates, and contribute to logging, monitoring, troubleshooting, release processes and effective handovers.
- Project Delivery & Apprenticeship Development: Manage agreed tasks and priorities, communicate risks, blockers or changes in scope promptly, and work with support from the Engineering Manager and apprenticeship provider to follow a development plan, achieve competency milestones, act on feedback and maintain the evidence portfolio required for the Level 4 Software Development Apprenticeship.
Training
You’ll be based full time with an employer and will quickly become an important part of the team. Our training is 100% online, including real-time classes with our expert trainers and self-paced courses created by industry specialists.
This apprenticeship programme will provide you with everything you need to launch and develop your career in software development. Afterwards, we’ll support you to take the next steps, including further training.
- Apprenticeship Standard
- Software developer (level 4)
- Training Provider
- BALTIC TRAINING SERVICES LIMITED
- Working Week
- Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm
- Expected Duration
- 1 Year 7 Months
- Positions Available
- 3
- Closing Date
- Friday, 27th November 2026
- Start Date
- Monday, 11th January 2027
Desired Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Creative
- Initiative
Qualifications
- English GCSE, grade 4/C (Essential)
- Maths GCSE, grade 4/C (Essential)