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Take the first step into a career in software development! In this role you will work towards a Foundation Degree in Digital Innovation to the Level 4 Software Developer Standard with an optional 3rd year of study to top up to a full BSc Degree Apprenticeship (Digital Technology Solutions Professional).
Qualifications Required
To be considered and eligible for the apprenticeship:
• You must be available to start with us on April 2nd 2024 and available for the 5-week launchpad which starts on Monday 8th April 2024.
• You’ll need to have full right to work in the UK, and you must be based (& living) in the UK for the duration of the apprenticeship.
• You must be 18 or older as of April 2023 and not in full time education.
• You’ll need to meet the standard eligibility requirements for apprenticeships in England (including having lived in the UK or EEA for the last three years).
• You’ll need to have a Grade 4/ Grade C or higher in GCSE Maths & English. If you studied outside of the UK you can use a statement of comparability but it will need to reach an equivalent grading.
• Unfortunately, you must have no existing formal qualifications (degree, HND etc.) at the same or higher level in a similar subject. (e.g. Computer Science degree)
Skills Required
• That you have a genuine desire and interest for a career in software engineering!
• We’re not looking for qualifications, but you’ll need to have a basic/intermediate knowledge of programming and software development, either through your education or from personal projects. We’ll be looking for you to demonstrate this on your application.
• The role is well suited to those who have completed a bootcamp or similar learning. It’s an opportunity to build on those fundamentals that you will have learned. If you’ve done a bootcamp or similar, then please shout about it on your application.
• We’ll be looking for you to show that you enjoy working in teams and collaborating with others.
Training to be Provided
Study the Level 4 Software Developer Apprenticeship with Ada, National College for Digital Skills.
Future Prospects
Over the course of this programme, you will spend approximately 20% of your time training with Ada, The National College for Digital Skills, through a blend of remote and face to face training at their campus.
The rest of your time will be working in engineering teams at Moneysupermarket group, helping to build, test, deploy and maintain services used by millions of people across the UK. We will also supplement your learning with Ada College developing your skills in practices and technologies we use.
Vacancy Detail
Our mission is to help households save money. Through MoneySupermarket, MoneySavingExpert, Quidco and B2B partnerships we supply products to more than 24 million unique monthly visitors, helping UK households to save billions of pounds a year. You can tell this is something we’re exceptionally proud of!
Our services are built by highly collaborative product teams, jam packed with hard-working product managers, designers and engineers constantly striving for ways to innovate our services and improve our technology platforms and practices. Our goal is to champion a collaborative environment; we love pairing, mobbing, TDD, automating, releasing to production numerous times a day via our highly automated build pipelines.
At Moneysupermarket our developers use their expertise and knowledge of building and maintaining large distributed systems to create blazingly fast and reliable experiences that delight our customers. They also use their passion to inspire everyone they work with to deliver a world class experience. We work collaboratively in full stack multi-disciplinary teams where everyone is expected to be hands on across all stages of development.
As part of the process, you will need to be available to join us in a permanent capacity on Tuesday 2nd April 2024. You will join us for a week on onboarding, and then begin your course with Ada on Monday 8th April 2024.
We will be holding an assessment day on Tuesday 13th February 2024, and you will need to be available for an in-person assessment on this date.
What can I expect when I start?
Start with your induction with Moneysupermarket Group and then begin your initial 6 weeks of training with Ada college.
Within 3 months you’ll be:
• Building relationships with your line manager and mentors.
• Meeting with your team and peers, building relationships and learning how we work.
• Diving into our technology & our products by coding with engineers in the team.
• Doing supplemental training, supported by your mentors and peers.
• Learn how we operate, our principles, history and where we’re heading.
Longer term, you’ll:
• Collaborate with all members of your team and work hands-on through all stages of software development delivery.
• Continue to develop and grow your ability to start to contribute more to team delivery.
• Spend 20% of your time (in 1 week blocks) training with Ada.
• Once you’ve completed the initial two-year programme, you’ll graduate and have the option of an additional third year of study.
I’d love to know more:
• Find out more about our product and technology teams here.
• We’ll be hosting a call to explain more about our apprenticeship schemes. They’ll be an opportunity for you to ask questions, and we’d love to hear from you there.
Our approach to work:
We have a hybrid approach to office working and working where you decide best. We use a guide of 40% of the time on-site for collaboration. For our Tech, Product & Design teams collaboration time is Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the office. We operate our Work Your Way policy, with flexibility around core hours to help you manage your life outside of work.
The course at Ada College is structured around in-person learning and so you will need to be available to attend on-site college sessions.
You’ll need to be based locally for face-to-face training at Ada, and for face-to-face working in our office.
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Our benefits include up to 30 days holiday, a bonus, enhanced parental leave, and tools that empower our supportive culture. You can find a full list on the www.moneysupermarket.com.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
We’re an inclusive, anti-racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual expression and orientation, religion and faith, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, social background, education and way of thinking. We’re a place where you can be you.
Our customers and users come from different backgrounds, as do our colleagues. We welcome applications from everyone, and particularly encourage women and Black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates to apply as we’re actively building representation that’s more closely reflective of the communities we serve. Our appointments are made on merit, following a robust and objective assessment process, and the candidate with the highest score is offered the role. If you’re passionate about our purpose of helping households save money and excited about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.
We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know anything before applying such as more on the location, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know and we’ll be happy to help.
