Undergraduate Trainee - Software Engineer - IFS Colombo

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.
At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.
We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.
We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.
If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

IFS Academy is on the lookout for a dynamic and open-minded undergraduate student to join us as an Undergraduate Trainee - Software Engineer.
As an Undergraduate Trainee Software Engineer in the IFS Academy team, you’ll be responsible for delivering quality software by applying sound development practices and leveraging industry standard development methodology. Based on requirements and functionality specifications from the stakeholders, you will develop software solutions and automations as they relate to our IFS Academy delivery operations. You will work with full stack development (both back-end and front-end components), to design and build solutions to address the requirements of IFS Academy.
In order to join the IFS Academy in IFS Global Customer Services as an Undergraduate Trainee Software Engineer, you need to be good at listening and communicating, and sharing knowledge and experience. If you consider yourself as a person that is proactive, who takes initiative and responsibility, who gets excited by opportunities to learn, who has interest in understanding our customer needs and designing and building solutions in addressing those, we want to hear from you.
An undergraduate software engineer is expected to consistently develop high-quality software solutions by:
-Analyzing and interpreting the requirements to fulfill the domain (IFS Academy training delivery operations) needs.
-Applying the best software engineering and architectural concepts. 
-Ensuring product performance and maintainability by adhering to software engineering standards, guidelines, processes, and tools.
-Performing comprehensive testing and documentation activities.
-Actively participating in communication with stakeholders to ensure the solution is fit-for-purpose.
-Learn and work on or support the Developer Operations (DevOps) and Technical Administration tasks for Databases, Virtual Machines, Cloud platforms and other tools.
-Learn and maintaining a very good understanding of the continuously evolving software development process, frameworks and tools used at IFS and in industry.
-Keeping up to date on emerging software engineering concepts and practices.

Qualifications

-An undergraduate of a recognized degree program in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or Information Systems.
-A good understanding of software engineering principles, including object-oriented concepts, relational databases, web technologies, DevOps technologies, software architectures and programming languages.
-Knowledge of one or more of Oracle, Java/JEE, C#/.NET, JavaScript Frameworks such as AngularJS, and Containers (Docker and Kubernetes)
-Knowledge in Software Engineering best practices and Agile SDLC.
-The ability to work in a distributed Global team setup.
-Good command of English and communication skills.
-Ability to understand, summarize and present information in a clear and concise manner.

Additional Information

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.