Software Engineering Apprenticeship

Facebook ,
London, Greater London
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**Intro:** Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started. **Summary:** Want to build new features and improve existing products like Messenger, Video, Groups, News Feed, Search and more? Want to solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems? You can help build the next-generation of products, systems and services that help people connect with each other around the globe. We are looking for Software Engineering Apprentices who are excited about building new features and products that have the potential to revolutionize the world of work. We want people who are excited about solving unique, large-scale, and highly complex technical problems. Our development cycle is extremely fast, and we've built tools to keep it that way. It's common to write code and have it running live just a few days later. If you work with us, you will make an impact, immediately. Facebook and our training provider White Hat will collaborate to ensure that you are provided with continuous training and development, 20% of your development will be a combination of theory, technical and practical training whilst the remaining 80% will be on the job learning, with a tailored development plan and opportunities to increase your skills throughout. You will receive support from your manager, buddy and mentor to aid you in securing a permanent role in one of our teams, a competitive salary along with other generous benefits.This is an 18 month Level 4 Higher Apprenticeship program in the London Software Engineering team in conjunction with our training provider, White Hat. **Required Skills:** 1. Build software for the various teams, this could include serverside components, user interfaces and mobile applications. 2. Depending on the project, you may code in Hack/PHP, Javascript, Objective C, Java or C++. 3. Design, run and evaluate experimental results for the features you build 4. Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists and user researchers to build and improve products **Minimum Qualifications:** 5. You will have 2 A levels (or equivalent) at grade C or above, with preferably one in Technology, Mathematics, Science, Engineering or similar STEM subject 6. Level 2 in English and Maths, or a relevant Level 3 Apprenticeship, or equivalent qualifications or experience 7. Interest and experience in programming and building software 8. Ability to program in some mainstream programming language such as C++, Java, Python, Haskell, PHP or Javascript 9. Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically 10. Have authorization to work in the United Kingdom **Preferred Qualifications:** 11. Experience from personal, school or open source projects or programming competitions is a plus 12. High levels of creativity and quick problem solving capabilities 13. Strong written and verbal communication skills 14. A strong interest in learning and growing as a software engineer **Industry:** Internet

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