SRP company Xceptor seeks software engineering placement students

Surrey Research Park company Xceptor, who help financial institutions to automate business processes and deliver trusted data, are advertising for 5 x student placements to work as Software Engineers.

Their strong web application is always being improved; you will be a member of one of their scrum teams, each responsible for creating an improved, stable and secure product. You will have a level of involvement in client-facing activities.

Responsibilities

• Developing new features within our product suite, and extensions to existing components.
• Improving existing features/components of our product suite.
• Feature analysis and solution design.
• Automated testing solutions: from unit tests to full user interface testing.
• Customer support including problem-solving and assisting with complex new requirements.

Essential Skills and Competencies

• Strong academic background.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Logical and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Positive client service approach with a ‘can-do-will-do’ attitude and a desire to take responsibility for delivery.
• Technical skills including .NET or Java, database technologies such as SQL Server/Oracle/MySQL, XML, and web technologies including JavaScript and HTML.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• 25 days annual holiday entitlement + bank holidays
• Private Medical – BUPA (Platinum)
• Life Assurance – base salary x4
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible benefits platform, including holiday purchase, interest free travel loan, cycle to work, tech purchase etc.
• Eligible for a final year scholarship (on successful completion of the placement)

To apply for this opportunity please visit Surrey Pathfinder

If you would like to recruit a placement student, sign up to advertise on Pathfinder, the University of Surrey’s recruitment portal.

Alternatively email: [email protected]