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Software Developer Apprentice

Blacklight Software
Pay: £16,000.00 - £25,000.00
Location: Yorkshire Wakefield United Kingdom
Category: Entry Level
Available from: Feb 2022
Finishes on: Ongoing Position
Type of work: Full Time, Indoor & Outdoor
Job reference: E04921246
2022-01-20 2022-02-17

Job Description

Initially you will be on a guided learning path to gain exposure to the technologies we use, especially around Microsoft’s cloud stack (Azure, Office 365). Once completed you will join the development team and contribute to successful projects.



As a junior member of the Development team you will be involved in providing technical solutions for our software projects and our 3rd party customers products under the supervision of a more experienced developer. You will work directly with the Technical Lead and Project Mangers to develop features and resolve bugs to ensure the continued success of these projects. 



In addition to project work, Blacklight Software will sponsor your continued learning on the Software Developer Apprenticeship Level 4. 



Department: Development



Reports to: Technical Lead



Main responsibilities:




  • To code, in a manner consistent with published coding standards, as part of a team to ensure all objectives are delivered to a high standard of quality and accuracy.

  • To work closely with other members of the team by understanding your own contribution to the team’s goals, taking ownership of any potential problems to ensure they are resolved.

  • To design technically and document aspects of the software project, including but not limited to database, business rules and presentation. Documentation must be produced to a high level of accuracy, be unambiguous, and kept up to date.

  • To identify and highlight where productivity gains can be achieved either through new techniques or adoption of programming tools. If appropriate design, develop and implement programming tools for internal use.

  • To practice test driven development.

  • To help the project managers identify and classify programming defects and then develop a solution for these defects that satisfies the specification.

  • To deploy updates onto target infrastructure, performing any necessary system tests and ensuring accuracy of deployment, either remotely or on a customer’s site.

  • To be aware of current trends and new technologies within the industry and keep skills up to date through self-study and research.

  • To perform other functions as required by line manager or Blacklight Software senior management.


Personal Qualities :

Desirable experience:




  • Agile Methodologies

  • TDD

  • JavaScript

  • Office 365

  • Azure



Skills Required :

  • You will be an enthusiastic software developer with experience working within the .NET ecosystem during your L4 apprentice program.

  • You will be passionate about writing software and will be familiar with techniques used to delivering high quality, tested, scalable and maintainable code.

  • You will be adaptable. As a software agency we get requests to do weird and wonderful things with weird and wonderful technologies. This should excite you.

  • You will have an appetite to learn and will share your findings. Working at Blacklight provides a lot of variety. Combined with regular knowledge sharing sessions, this is a great opportunity to learn.



Future Prospects :

92% of QA Apprentices secure permanent employment after finishing their apprenticeship. Additionally there may be opportunities to undertake further apprenticeship training as many of our programs offer on-going development tracks. 


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