Software Development Apprentice – Winchester

Level 4 Software Developer

Company: Libresoft

Full Address: Unit 4, Moorside Place, Moorside Rd, Winchester SO23 7FX

Weekly Hours Worked: 9am – 5pm (Monday – Friday)

Salary: £16,000p/a

Please contact Nathaniel on Nathaniel.Hamilton@estio.co.uk or call 0113 3500 333

About the company:

We are Libresoft. We are a family company who are passionate about creating beautiful tools for schools, helping staff and students to achieve more.

We pride ourselves on being friendly and personable which, combined with our great value software and excellent support, is why so many schools have put their trust in us (over 1,750 across the UK and the rest of the world at last count!)

Brief job description:

Estio Training have an exciting new opportunity for a Software Developer Apprentice with Libresoft, a Software Company based in Winchester.

Job Description:

The role involves working as part of a small office-based team supporting Primary and Secondary Schools with the Library Management System that we have developed. You will primarily be assisting with the troubleshooting, and resolution, of bugs within our Library system. You will also be involved in the testing and bug resolution for other products that we have in development.

Your duties and responsibilities in this role will consist of:

• Troubleshoot, resolve and respond to bug reports
• Provide support to our customers on occasion
• Testing new releases of the system and other products
• Assist with product documentation

Qualifications:

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

Skills Required:

• A desire to impress colleagues and customers
• Using initiative to deliver impressive results
• Eagerness to learn and develop tech skills
• Flexibility, team spirit, and adaptability
• Excellent communication skills
• Friendly, confident, smart, and personable
• Enthusiastic, tenacious, and hardworking

Personal qualities:

• Knowledge of some programming languages. Ideally PHP/Javascript as well as Symphony/React/React Native would also be beneficial, but this is not essential if the candidate has good knowledge of another equivalent programming language.
• The ideal candidate would have a passion for coding, which would be demonstrated through their education up to this stage and ideally some personal projects that they have taken on.
• GCSEs (or equivalent) in Maths and English.
• Some customer service experience would be good, but not required.

Future prospects:

The role offers a permanent role upon completion of the apprenticeship depending on performance.

Training to be provided:

Estio apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.

Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.

Successful completion of this apprenticeship gives you an accredited Level 4 Software Developer, with training in how to:

• Create logical and maintainable codes for software development.
• Apply security best practice to the software solution throughout the software development life cycle.
• Apply appropriate recovery techniques to ensure the software solution being developed is not lost.
• Implement accurate and effective change control.
• Undertake unit testing of solutions, with appropriate levels of test code coverage, to identify and resolve issues.
• Apply suitable ‘bug fixes’ based on severity and priority.

For a full list of programme modules visit: estio.co.uk/courses/software-developer