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🏭 Year in Industry 2026 Software Development Placement

💼 Summer 2026 Work Experience

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Working at Harker

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💪 Flexible Working

All of our staff can work flexibly by choosing their working hours to suit how they work best and fit work around their commitments, such as academic studies or volunteering.

Full-time staff have a set of Core Hours (Mon - Wed, 10:00 - 14:00), but have full flexibility outside of these times.

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🏠 Remote Working

All of our staff work on a hybrid model, so they have a choice of working in our office at CENTRAL TECH or remotely elsewhere.

Further, all of our meetings are hybrid by default, meaning that you can join remotely via Microsoft Teams.

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👔 CPD Scheme

Full-time staff can spend one day each month (or equivalent time) working on projects that interest them and will help them to up-skill.

For example, a software developer might spend CPD learning a new programming language or contribute to open source code.

Check out Tom’s blog post to read about an example of CPD work.

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🤝 Open Communication

As a small, lean organisation, we don’t suffer under layers of bureaucracy and corporate jargon. We use a casual, but straight-forward and direct communication within our team.

Staff have regular 1:1 meetings with their manager to catch-up and keep progress on track.

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🔊 Having a Voice

By joining Harker, you’ll be working in a small team where everyone’s opinion and input is truly heard and valued. We encourage staff to speak their minds in meetings and everyone’s views are treated equally.

You’ll be in ‘the room where it happens’, in meetings where key discussions are held and decisions are made.

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♿ Inclusive Practices

Harker is a Disability Confident Leader organisation, meaning that we have developed our recruitment and employment processes to be inclusive to disabled staff.

As an organisation founded and led by disabled people, we encourage applicants from disabled talent and are committed to helping those staff thrive in our workplace.

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👖 No Dress Code

Wear whatever you work best in! Unless we have a client meeting, you’ll find most of our staff in jeans and t-shirts.

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Don’t Just Take Our Word For It

Hear from Josh, Year in Industry Software Developer Intern, about why he likes working at Harker:

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Hear from Tom, Software Developer, about how workplace adjustments have supported him to thrive at Harker as a staff member with ADHD.

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Recruitment at Harker

We put a lot of time and energy into our recruitment to ensure that we hire the best person for the role. Here are some of our principals around how we recruit at Harker:

• We never ghost applicants - all applicants are informed of their outcome, positive or negative, via email.
• We always list the salary or hourly rate alongside a detailed job description and person specification.
• We have a named contact on job listings to contact with any questions or to arrange an informal chat before applying.
• We allow applicants to apply via alternate methods if preferred, such as a video submission or over the phone.
• Written feedback is offered to all unsuccessful applicants via email.
• There is an opportunity for all interviewees to leave anonymous feedback to help us improve our interview process.