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Why Apple? Imagine what we could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there’s no telling what we could accomplish. Apple Music is all the ways you love music, all in one place. Within this team, Shazam brings a unique brand of magic to millions every day. Millions of users. Billions of Shazams. Countless moments of discovery.
It’s our people – their imagination, skills and ideas – that shape our future, and help us make the impossible come to life. As a graduate software engineering placement at Shazam for one year, you will start in July 2022 and spend a year within our engineering teams based in our London office, the tech hub of Shazam.
Our programme is crafted to help you explore where your passion lies within software engineering and give you the invaluable experience of delivering features as a full stack engineer. You will spend the first half rotating through our frontend and backend engineering teams. After that, you’ll be given the opportunity to pick the team you want to spend the second half of your placement in.
Key qualifications
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced technical environment and can handle technical conversations with software engineers
- A fast learner with the ability to adapt to new team environments and priorities quickly
- A phenomenal teammate that can work expertly with managers and developers alike
- A passionate programmer
- Energetic!
Description
You will have the chance to rotate through the following teams: - iOS (Swift, Objective-C) - Android (Kotlin) - Data (Scala) - Metadata (Scala) - External APIs (Kotlin, Go, Java), and - Site Reliability Engineering (Go) After the rotations, you will join the team of your choice, and deliver on their projects. You will also own and work on a cross-functional feature, towards which you can put your knowledge across the teams into action. This role will be based in London, where our engineering teams are based and you can benefit from working alongside them day by day. However, given the global pandemic you may be required to work remotely for some of the time and therefore we ask candidates to reside within 2 hours of GMT. On successful completion of this placement, there may be an opportunity to turn this placement into a Software Engineer role.
Education & experience
A graduate or a final year student studying towards a degree relevant to software engineering or has equivalent and meaningful experience Previous programming experience
Additional requirements
- Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Helping develop features on specific projects, mentored by an expert software engineer
- Working with team members to help define technical solutions to customers’ requirements
- Working with teams to follow the best engineering practices and quality requirements
- Actively participating in the team discussions and meetings
Benefits
Apple’s most important resource, our soul, is our people. Apple benefits help further the well-being of our employees and their families in meaningful ways. No matter where you work at Apple, you can take advantage of our health and wellness resources and time-away programmes.
We’re proud to provide stock grants to employees at all levels of the company, and we also give employees the option to buy Apple stock at a discount — both offer everyone at Apple the chance to share in the company’s success.
You’ll discover many more benefits of working at Apple, such as programmes that match your charitable contributions, reimburse you for continuing your education and give you special employee pricing on Apple products.
Apple benefits programmes vary by country and are subject to eligibility requirements.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
Apple is a drug-free workplace.
