Software Developer Apprentice

Your duties and responsibilities in this role will consist of:

• You'll be responsible for implementing new features and improvements to our products and services, in both our web applications and mobile apps
• You'll be part of planning and designing the ideal solutions for our customers, and responding to customer feedback to shape our systems to their needs
• Our senior developers will give you all the assistance, mentoring and training you need to understand our codebase, product offering, coding styles, and methodologies
• As well as developing new projects, you'll be responding to customer requests and bug alerts to ensure our systems are always available and reliable
• As part of implementing our products with our customers, where needed you'll be building APIs for interaction with third-party systems, and in turn interfacing our systems with other API's
• You'll be based in our offices in St. Helens, in a flexible and relaxed yet hard working environment, occasionally working from and visiting customers' premises in the local area to meet and assist with their needs

Requirements and prospects

Desired skills

• Great with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript
• Passionate about software development
• Able to communicate clearly to both a technical and non-technical audience
• Able to apply best practices to write reusable, maintainable, reliable code
• Willing to take responsibility to deliver products in a timely manner
• Excellent organisational skills

Personal qualities

• Excellent command of the English language
• Attention to detail
• A team player willing to learn and be part of a distributed team
• Ability to self-manage tasks to get the job done
• Attitude to learn new things and quickly adapt to change

Desired qualifications

5 GCSEs grades A*-C / 9-4 or equivalent (including English Language and Maths).

Future prospects

The role offers long term security and the opportunity to progress into a permanent position.

Things to consider

Apprentices are paid for their normal working hours and training that's part of their apprenticeship (usually one day per week).

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