Graduate Software Engineer

OVERALL SUMMARY

To actively learn best practices in the software engineering domain and become a valuable, contributing member of the engineering team.

The graduate software engineer will assist the Senior Software Engineers and Software Engineers in the gathering of business requirements, internal design and system requirements.

In time, Graduate Software Engineers will develop structured clean re-usable code that follows the pre-defined engineering standards to solve business and customer problems.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Learning software engineering best practices as well as business knowledge in the financial services domain
• Assisting our team in the gathering of business requirements, internal designs, and system requirements
• Assisting our Lead Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers at all stages of the software development life cycle
• Contributing to the delivery objectives of the product team, including fixing live issues and supporting senior members of the team in delivery of client/business projects
• Complete training and self-improvement to achieve formal qualification & achieve our engineering standards
• Regularly review your delivery progress and submit status reports to Lead/Senior Software Engineers
• Actively seek code reviews from senior members of the team to ensure code quality and functionality is correct.
• Engage with our team, have fun, share ideas and gain practical knowledge and experience

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF:

• Clear passion for Technology and drive to build a career within Software Engineering
• Minimum 2.1 Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Proficient in Java / Javascript / C# / C++ with a good knowledge of its ecosystem
• Commitment to continuous personal development
• A strong desire to learn
• Ability to multi-task, work well under pressure and use own initiative
• Excellent analytical skills
• Pro-active can-do attitude with excellent problem solving capabilities
• Excellent time keeping and prioritisation skills
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build a good rapport with colleagues

IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU:

• Evident interest in Trading or Financial Services
• Experience or familiarity of desktop or web app development
• Familiar with software design patterns and able to discuss their use in designs
• Understands the fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Proficient with Git and the use of branching strategies

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don't tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

We appreciate that from time to time, recruitment agencies will have speculative CVs that they may wish to submit to our Talent Acquisition team in relation to a specific role.

To avoid any ambiguity around fees, please note that speculative CVs received by Close Brothers, that have not been authorised in advance, by us, will be ineligible for an agency fee. Thank you.

Winterflood Securities is a leading market maker committed to providing liquidity and flexible execution services to retail brokers, asset managers and institutional investors.

Winterflood's strengths are a combination of traditional trading values and the performance of our own cutting edge technology. Our experienced team of traders helps clients achieve high quality execution in over 15,000 tradable instruments including UK, European and North American Equities together with Investment Trusts, Exchange Traded Products, Fixed Income, Structured Products and Funds. Founded in 1988, Winterflood has gone from being a niche market maker in the UK Small Cap market, to a mature, diverse and major liquidity provider across multiple asset classes in the UK and European markets.

Winterflood is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Winterflood Securities is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Close Brothers Group plc, a specialist financial services group which makes loans, takes deposits, trades securities and provides advice and investment management solutions to a wide range of clients. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 250.