Graduate Software Developer
preston, lancashire, north west england, united kingdom
OCU
every day. From your first sprint you'll pick up clearly scoped tickets, contribute to peer reviews and execute test cases that safeguard quality. You'll receive mentorship in Ruby on Rails, SQL tuning, containerised development and modern CI/CD workflows while gradually taking on more complex tasks. Expect exposure to the whole engineering lifecycle: analysing user stories, coding … surface anomalies to the team. Suggest documentation updates and lightweight process improvements. Skills and Experience: Essential Skills 0–2 years commercial or strong academic software-development exposure. Familiarity with Ruby (or another OO language) and web-framework basics. Basic knowledge of Git commits, branching and pull-request flow. Understanding of unit/integration testing principles; able to write simple RSpec … or Minitest cases. Clear communicator—comfortable asking questions and explaining findings. Demonstrable enthusiasm for continuous learning and problem-solving. Desirable Skills Exposure to Ruby on Railsand relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL). Experience with containerised development (Docker) or cloud hosting. Familiarity with CI pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.). Knowledge of front-end tech (HTML/CSS/JS) or More ❯
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