MSc Software Engineer Masters Apprentice (PHP)

You will be a core member of our development team delivering enterprise-quality software supporting local, national, and international customers across a range of solutions. We strive to continuously improve our development and DevOps methodologies and tools supported by strong Agile principles.

You will contribute to the implementation of our software solutions through the production of high-quality code. You will be involved in crucial stages of the development lifecycle throughout the build and deployment of our products and provide support post-deployment. You will work closely with others to produce quality code that is efficient, maintainable, and testable. This is full-stack role, focussing on developing web based services.

You will work with the team to deliver new functionality, as well as improving and maintaining existing solutions. You will contribute to planning activities whilst aligning your workload to team delivery timescales.

Responsibilities:

• Develop the next generation of our software using the latest web technologies with standard design patterns and practices, all in an agile environment
• Write clean, documented, testable and scalable code to new functionality to our solutions, as well as improving our existing codebase
• Delivery of enterprise-quality, web-based API driven solutions
• Contribute to Scrum events: Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement workshops and Sprint Retrospectives
• Develop new features across and maintain all versions of our software
• Participate in code, architecture, and other reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions
• Supporting our colleagues in the deployment, support, and infrastructure teams
• Production of technical documentation, wikis, and release notes, where required, to support all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Learn and use our existing toolset and infrastructure

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Problem solving skills
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative

• Any subject Degree, grade 2:2 or above (Essential)