Graduate Software Engineer

Our 12 month Graduate Programme

Joining the Leonardo Graduate Scheme is the opportunity to be part of the next generation of our business. As a Graduate you will join us on £32,000 with a welcome bonus and could receive a generous Temporary Accommodation Allowance if you move more than 40 miles away from home for the role.

You will be provided with a wealth of development opportunities in both virtual and applied working environments. On our programme you will engage with challenging and exciting project work and deliver innovative business or technical solutions as part of a team of subject matter experts.  

Throughout the programme you will receive coaching and support from your team to achieve your objectives as well as your personal development goals. We are committed to developing our graduates into leading technical or business professionals, and as such we will also support you through your preferred route for Chartership. 

At Leonardo we value individuals who continuously demonstrate a dedication to their personal development, and this is no different for our graduates. We have partnered with Coursera, the world leading online training platform that offers around 4,000 courses you can sign up to, according to your professional and personal interests. Self-directed learning thrives in this environment.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Graduate Software Engineer who would like to join our Graduate scheme and work on a variety of technologies across the full Software stack to help maintain, modernise and add to our product portfolio.

Formally based at our Southampton office, the role may be a mixture of home based and onsite working. The team allows members to choose what works for them.

What you’ll do as a Graduate Software Engineer:

• Working in a Scrum Team you will oversee product development across multiple products supporting multiple customers.
• You will work closely with experienced and multi-disciplined engineers to solve real problems.
• Software development will include the full software lifecycle from requirements analysis; through design, coding and unit test; to integrating the software with the hardware target; and to acceptance test and delivery to the customer.
• You will design and implement high quality robust code and support build, configuration control, and deployment.
• You’ll be involved in the design of the products including liaising with Stakeholders over requirements and roadmaps and shaping User Stories and subsequent task breakdown.
• You’ll have a say in tools, languages and frameworks in order to engineer the best solution.
• You’ll be working across a number of different languages including C++, JavaScript and Kotlin.
• You’ll be working across the full stack of Software including platform, backend, frontend and mobile.

There are opportunities to progress through either managerial or technical career paths.

What we are looking for:

• You will have a degree level qualification (or equivalent) in a relevant STEM discipline.
• Experience of developing software in one or more of the following languages C++ , C#, Javascript, or Java/Kotlin
• Knowledge and use of databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB.
• Knowledge of client server architecture.
• Development experiencing under Windows and Linux
• Experience of using Git

It would be nice if you had:

Knowledge and experience of the following:

• HTML
• CSS
• Kotlin
• C#
• Java
• Bash/Shell scripting
• Front end web development frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular/AngularJS

Experience of

• Agile software development; Scrum, Kanban
• JIRA, Confluence and BitBucket

An understanding of

• virtualisation technologies such as Hyper V, VMWare or VirtualBox
• networks & networking

Life at Leonardo

With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.

• Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us
• Company funded flexible benefits: Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance)
• Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year
• Pension: Award winning pension scheme (up to 10% employer contribution)
• Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Reservists, Carers)
• Lifestyle:  Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme
• Training: Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera
• Referral Incentive: You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member

Please note that in order to apply for this opportunity you must be eligible for UK Security Clearance. Normally this is to the level of Security Check (typically known as “SC”) for our business which includes having a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in the UK.

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