Software Engineer - Intern

  • Lucy Group Head Office
  • Basildon, Essex
  • 27/06/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Job Purpose

This is an exciting opportunity to enhance your existing skillset and gain technical knowledge and experience by working alongside highly skilled & experienced senior engineers.

Throughout the placement, you will be delivering a series of work packages aimed at enhancing the capabilities of existing products, with scope to help define the technical solution under guidance from your colleagues.

This is a hands on role, gaining exposure to all elements of the software and product development lifecycle, adopting the latest industry standard tools and technologies stacks.

Job Context
  • Exposure to good engineering practices to design and implement new features for existing products
  • Analyse scope and requirements, identify and solve problems
  • Develop skills to provide innovative solutions to technical problems
  • Work with in an agile multi disciplined team
  • Apply knowledge in programming languages to solve real world problems
Job Dimensions

The role will be based in the UK, with some level of working from home negotiable.

Key Accountabilities
  • Deliver agreed work packages on time and to the agreed quality/standards
  • Coordinate and deliver in cooperation with other project teams
Qualifications, Experience & Skills Qualifications
  • Working towards a degree in a relevant subject (Software Engineering or equivalent).
Skills
  • Ability to analyse the scope of the tasks
  • Interpret and/or contribute to requirements and specifications
  • Create concept designs
  • Work with other engineers to design and debug systems
  • Documentation skills to be able to articulate and record design decisions and technical aspects of the work packages developed
Essential Knowledge
  • Java or Python programming languages
  • Basic understanding of testing
Desirable Knowledge
  • Experience of communications protocols such as TCP IP
  • Object Orientated Design
  • UML
  • Linux operating systemsDatabase principles (basic SQL and/or database terminology)
Behavioural Competencies
  • Methodical approach to problem solving
  • Capable of driving ideas/projects forward
  • Able to work effectively to meet agreed timescales having considered and planned the project activities
  • Delivering work packages, not just researching ideas or theorising
  • Well organised
  • Proactive
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
  • Good interpersonal skills with a pleasant and can do attitude