Software Engineering | Internship

Job description
Why Software Engineering?

Our software engineers play an essential part in the technical design, development and testing of complex applications and services. There are opportunities to work across the range of full stack development and from initial planning stages to delivery. We make use of the latest technologies, ways of working and frameworks to tackle complex problems and deliver industry leading services for our customers.

Our world-class summer internship

Our Software Engineering summer internship has been designed to give you a taste of what it’s like to work with us, along with valuable experience to help guide your career choices.

At the end of the placement, we’ll assess you on what you’ve learned. Complete this successfully and you could be offered a place on our Software Engineering graduate programme, where you can carry the skills you’ve learnt forward and take the next step in your career. 

Over the course of this eight-week programme, you can look forward to:
• Accelerating your software engineering capability
• Seeing first-hand how we work together as one bank to deliver an outstanding service for our customers
• Learning about our culture, values and goals
• Attending training workshops and getting involved with our day-to-day work
• Exploring your capability by taking part in a business improvement project
• Gaining unique experience by working with our Software Engineering teams and getting involved in the work they are doing
• Developing your collaboration, creative-thinking and problem-solving skills

How you’ll benefit

We’ll reward you with a starting salary of £24,000 pro rata.

Plus, you can expect to:
• Learn from industry experts and immediately apply your learnings
• Enrich your learning with access to world-leading research and insights
• Test and learn new approaches in a safe, inclusive environment
• Start building a global professional network
• Grow your confidence, build your resilience, and elevate your presence
• Experience first-hand what it’s like working in a purpose-driven organisation

Entry requirements

To be eligible for our Software Engineering internship you’ll need:
• To be in your penultimate year of university
• To be on course to achieving a 2:1 in your degree
• A passion for technology
• Creative problem-solving skills
• A deep sense of curiosity
• To be customer-focused
• A creative approach to problem solving
• To be comfortable challenging the status quo

Ready to apply?

The application window for this programme will be open until we receive enough applications to fill our cohort. When that happens, we’ll close the programme to new applications. It’s important to take the time to make sure you’re making the right decision about the programme you want to apply for (you can only apply for one programme) but please complete your application as soon as you can to make sure you don’t miss out!