IT Software Engineer / Tester - 12 Month Placement / Internship

We’re Enterprise Mobility. A family-owned, world-class portfolio of brands that includes household names such as Enterprise Rent-A-Car. With a $35 billion turnover and nearly 90,000 team members across 95 countries, we’ve grown from a pioneering idea over 65-years ago, to the global mobility leader we are today. Join us, and as this year’s RateMyPlacement’s Best Student Employer and a Times Top 100 Graduate Employer, we will offer you the freedom to explore your potential. For a university student, real world professional business experience can put you above the rest when you enter the job market. Ready to make your move? We are pleased to announce a new IT Software Engineer internship in our European Connected Car team to work on a strategic corporate booking tools project. The European Connected Car team is responsible for the development and ongoing ownership of software solutions primarily supporting vehicle data flowing from the car manufacturers into our cloud based systems. This includes API integration solutions running in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS with languages being primarily JAVA with some .NET technology stack, increasingly leveraging MS Azure cloud, to serve vehicle data to internal systems. The successful candidate activities will include cloud development, ingesting data from third party APIs and testing the accuracy of that data using physical vehicles, our team utilises industry standard tools such as Microsoft Azure DevOps, Amazon AWS and Postman. • Work with car manufacturers to understand the current and future connected car initiatives that they offer. • Review those APIs to ensure they meet our current needs. • Create ingestion pipelines to onboard that data for testing. • Physical vehicle testing to ensure the API works as expected. • Report on data accuracy. • Analyse large vehicle telemetry data sets for insights and trends. • Create monitoring and alerting for a production platform. • Learn technical aspects of cloud-based applications and infrastructure. • Work with experienced software engineers on solutions and platform improvements. • Assist software engineers with root cause analysis of defects found. • Follow and contribute to defined standards and processes within the development team. • Research and apply new methods to improve development quality and speed • Assist with the creation and maintenance of product documentation for existing and new functions. • Protect our customers, our employees, and our brands by incorporating security and compliance in all decisions and daily job responsibilities; follow security policies and procedures. • Must be a current university student looking to undertake a placement year (IT discipline) Development skills: Basic Knowledge around using development techniques to develop computer programs and APIs. Basic Programming Skills – JAVA and/or .NET. (JAVA would allow exposure to more of our platform). Basic SQL skills (e.g. query construction to understand basic data structures) Basic knowledge around documenting a computer program. Basic knowledge around unit testing a computer program. Basic knowledge around the use of Postman for API testing. The role involves a lot of problem solving so a technically curious mindset is a must. Desirable skills for a Software Engineer Intern: Basic knowledge on the Agile project Development methodology Basic knowledge on using Azure DevOps for CICD. Basic knowledge on writing databricks queries. Additional Information Hours: 40 per week Salary : £20,000 per annum Duration : The internship will run from July 2025 Location : Egham, Surrey, TW20 9FB (Plenty of free on site parking and approx. 10 minutes walk from Egham station) We accept applications for our Placement Programme from undergraduate university students that are due to take undertake a placement year starting summer 2025, regardless of university attended and subjects being studied. Our assessment is based on how you perform against our competencies and will judge you on that alone. How to Apply We take great care in our recruitment process to find the ideal candidate. But it’s not all about us; we want you to have the chance to find out what we’re all about. The first step is our application form, which takes about 15 minutes to complete. As well as telling us lots about you, it helps us identify the kind of competencies in you that we look for in our placement students. If your application is successful one of our Talent Acquisition team will be in contact to arrange a competency based telephone interview. Finally, you will be invited to attend an interview. Please let us know about any accommodations you may need to participate in our recruitment process. Please limit your application to only one job posting based on where you live and/or plan to work. Applying to multiple locations and roles will delay your application being processed.