Apprentice Software Engineer at Octanner in Salt Lake City, UT

Apprentice Software Engineer Location: USA - Utah-Salt Lake City-Headquarters O.C. Tanner is the global leader in software and services that improve workplace culture through meaningful employee experiences. Our Culture Cloud is a suite of apps designed to enhance the employee experience with strategic recognition, service awards, wellbeing, leadership, and events that help people thrive at work. Our Culture by Design approach provides expert services to organizations looking to create great workplaces. Our global team of 1,500 people hail from 58 countries and speak 62 languages. As programmers, researchers, designers, client professionals and craftspeople we create the tech, tools and awards that connect employees to purpose at thousands of companies. Join us as we help people all over the world thrive at work. In this apprentice role, you'll learn by doing -- contributing to real projects on our employee recognition platform while partnering closely with experienced engineers. Responsibilities Help identify, analyze, and remediate software vulnerabilities and accessibility issues Support the team by researching system capabilities and sharing findings with other developers Build and improve automated tests and test tooling for our employee recognition system With guidance from senior engineers, learn product requirements and help implement new features for our next-generation recognition platform Collaborate with your mentor and teammates through pair programming, design discussions, and regular check-ins Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to code reviews -- both giving and receiving constructive feedback Document technical decisions, changes, and troubleshooting steps to help keep the team aligned Participate in sprint ceremonies (standups, planning, reviews, retrospectives) and help break down work into well-scoped tasks Monitor and help troubleshoot issues in lower environments, and learn how we operate and support software in production Required Skills Experience with the Spring framework (Spring / Spring Boot) Familiarity with API development and integration (REST and/or GraphQL) Experience with the React JS framework is helpful, but not required Working knowledge of Java (ability to read, write, and debug Java code) Working knowledge of SQL (writing queries to read and analyze data) Familiarity with source control and standard development workflows (e.g., Git)