Graduate Software Engineer

Role: Graduate Software Engineer

Location: Cardiff

Hybrid

Salary: up to £25,000

Founded in 2018 LDMS is part of the LC Financial Holdings group, a 4 pillar organisation that has over 2,000 employees across Europe. Together, we have an impressive track record of providing world-class credit expertise that spans over 20 years.

We are a Fintech company focused on digital lending software, a market growing around 18% per year and set to be worth $27 billion by 2028. Given our expertise within the company and across the group we aim to be the leader in the space, and in order to do that we need a team of people who can not just write quality code but can think, create and challenge others to come up with the best solutions for our customers. We are an ambitious team with a pretty big ‘to-do list’ including improving existing products, building new ones and delivering to new markets.

The Role

As a Graduate Software Engineer, you will be part of a highly skilled and supportive team, working on real-world projects from day one. We believe in nurturing talent and encouraging exploration. This is a unique opportunity to hone your coding skills, develop your problem-solving abilities, and grow into a well-rounded software engineer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with senior engineers to design, develop, and maintain software.
• Write clean, efficient, and testable code in a variety of languages and frameworks.
• Participate in code reviews, pairing sessions, and sprint planning.
• Take on challenges with a problem-solving mindset, focusing on finding creative, efficient solutions.

What You’ll Learn

• Exposure to a wide range of programming languages and frameworks.
• Best practices in software development, including Agile methodologies.
• How to write maintainable, scalable, and high-performance code.
• Tools for continuous integration, automated testing, and code deployment.
• Collaborative problem-solving in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• The full software development lifecycle, from initial design to deployment and maintenance. 

What you’ll learn (not limited to) 

• Oracle PL/SQL
• Java
• Spring Boot
• Postgres
• React
• AWS

Requirements

• A recent graduate with a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (Must be Java based).
• Passionate about coding, technology, and learning.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Eager to learn new programming languages, tools, and frameworks.
• Experience with one or more programming languages (Java, JavaScript, C#) is a plus.
• Motivated by solving real-world problems and building meaningful software.

What’s important to us?

It’s safe to say our passion is tech but we recognise that it’s the people that we hire and bring together who are at the heart of the organisation. Over the years we have acquired and recruited a pretty eclectic bunch with hobbies ranging from gaming to ultra marathon running, snowboarding to chess and hiking and climbing, however, what we do have in common are our values:

Teamwork

Merit

Develop

Honest

Impactful

Integrity

They may just look like corporate jargon but they mean something to us, and if you can relate to the above, get in touch as it there’s a good chance that you’d be a great addition to the team.

Benefits

• 25 days Annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 1 day Birthday Leave
• 1 day Charity Leave
• Death In Service
• Private Health Insurance
• EAP
• Pension (Salary Sacrifice 3%/5% contribution)
• Salary sacrifice bike and electric car scheme
• Monthly Socials
• Charity Events