Associate Software Developer

Company: SAS Institute
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Location: Glasgow
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you contribute to a cloud-native platform for financial-risk solutions, joining a collaborative R&D team. You fix defects, write tests, and support secure software delivery to banks and insurers. You’ll work with modern tooling and learn from a culture that values curiosity, accountability and clear communication. You will grow by applying AI-assisted tooling to improve development outcomes while maintaining security standards. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape reliable software used by financial institutions at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Fix defects and implement small platform improvements
  • Write and maintain code and unit tests following team patterns
  • Add automated tests to ensure product reliability
  • Investigate reported issues and identify root causes
  • Track work in Jira, keep tickets updated, and link to pull requests
  • Open pull requests and participate in code reviews
  • Use AI-assisted development tools and verify their outputs
  • Follow security policies to support secure software development

Key requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/engineering/math or related field (or in progress)
  • Programming experience in at least one language (Python, Go, Java or C#)
  • Basic SQL knowledge
  • Basic understanding of REST APIs and HTTP
  • Basic familiarity with Git and the command line
  • Curiosity and patience debugging; willingness to ask questions
  • Clear written English
  • Proof of Right to work in the UK
  • Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Curiosity
  • Python, Go, Java or C#
  • SQL (basic queries with joins and filters)
  • REST APIs

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Posted: October 12th, 2026