Software Engineer Apprentice
You will play an important role within our technology team, contributing to the design, development, and ongoing improvement of our software systems. You will gain hands‑on experience across a wide range of development tasks, working closely with experienced engineers while completing your formal apprenticeship training.
Role
- Software development: Support the development and enhancement of customer‑facing applications such as online ordering systems and artwork editing tools. Assist in building and maintaining internal applications that underpin production workflows and other business processes
- Standalone solutions: Contribute to the development of bespoke software solutions designed to meet specific business challenges
- Problem solving & debugging: Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve issues within existing systems to maintain reliability, performance, and user satisfaction
- User acceptance testing (UAT): Participate in UAT to verify application functionality, usability, and readiness for release
- Data management: Work with spreadsheets, data input tasks, and basic analysis to support internal reporting and operational accuracy
- System maintenance: Assist in routine system maintenance to ensure security, stability, and optimal performance
- User support: Provide first‑line technical assistance to internal users, helping resolve software‑related queries and issues
- Continuous learning: Keep up to date with new tools, technologies, and industry best practices, applying this knowledge to your development work and apprenticeship training
Training
Why choose our Software Engineer Level 4 apprenticeship?
Our Software Engineer Level 4 Apprenticeship gives learners advance skills and technical grounding to design, test and maintain software and web systems. Learners will also gain an understanding on advanced programming, systems and software development projects. Software Development is at the heart of digital transformation. With demand for services to be consumed online by both clients and employees increasing exponentially, software developers are in high demand. Software Engineers build and test high-quality code across front end, logic and database layers.
QA’s Software Engineer Level 4 apprenticeship programme enables the apprentice to:
- Build advanced skills and technical grounding to design, test and maintain software and web systems.
- Receive training on end-to-end software dev stack, as opposed to hyper-focusing on one area of development.
- Develop more advanced applications.
Tools and technologies learned: Learners will learn to use HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3.
90% of QA apprentices secure permanent employment after completing: this is 20% higher than the national average.
- Apprenticeship Standard
- Software developer (level 4)
- Training Provider
- QA LIMITED
- Working Week
- Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 5:30pm.
- Expected Duration
- 1 Year 7 Months
- Positions Available
- 1
- Closing Date
- Monday, 23rd February 2026
- Start Date
- Monday, 2nd March 2026
Desired Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Problem solving skills