Internship Programme - Software Engineering

Application deadline:  7th November 2025

Programme start date: July 2026

Eligibility:  Penultimate year students graduating in Summer 2027

Who We Are:

Rothesay is the UK’s largest pensions insurance specialist, purpose-built to protect pension schemes and their members’ pensions. With over £69 billion of assets under management, we secure the pensions of nearly one million people and pay out, on average, approximately £350 million in pension payments each month.

Rothesay is dedicated to providing excellence in customer service alongside prudent underwriting, a conservative investment strategy and the careful management of risk. We are trusted by the pension schemes of some of the UK’s best known companies to provide pension solutions, including British Airways, Cadbury’s, the Civil Aviation Authority, the Co-Operative Group, National Grid, NatWest, Morrisons and Telent.

At Rothesay, we are striving to transform our industry. We believe deeply in creating real security for the future and our leadership in finding new and better ways to do that is the key to our success. To do that, we need the very brightest original thinkers to bring creativity as well as rigour. Rothesay is a rewarding place to work, where quality people can thrive and prosper. We pride ourselves on the connections our people build, many of whom have been with us for over ten years.

Internship Programme:

Our internship programme is designed to provide hands on work experience within a fast-pace financial services environment, allowing you to develop the key skills to jump-start your career.  

The 8 week structured programme will start with a fundamentals week offering insight into Rothesay, your team and the financial services industry.  Through-out the programme there will be both on-desk and off-desk technical and business skills training, providing career building exposure to accelerate your future after you graduate.  You will gain visibility and experience in a flat structure, with the opportunity to network and socialise across different levels and teams throughout the firm.  Rothesay is a rewarding place to work, where quality people can thrive and prosper.

What You’Ll Do:

The engineering team at Rothesay develops and supports systems used by front office (trading, risk, strats, capital, pricing) and middle office (operations, finance).

We are currently working on a significant multi-year project ‘Project Quest’ to migrate all pricing models, trade booking and risk management systems to new in-house developed software (historically we have used systems and platforms provided by Goldman Sachs).

We are looking for two interns to join our team to get involved in the Quest or Business Engineering projects. The day to day of the job will involve developing an understanding of requirements for elements of the systems that we are building, contributing code to the new systems and working with the team on the testing of software components.

This is a great chance to work with and learn from Rothesay’s team of extremely highly regarded, experienced and friendly software engineers. At Rothesay every employee has the opportunity to make a real impact to the business. The engineering team are open to new technologies and creative ideas.

Responsibilities:

• Working with internal Rothesay stakeholders to understand requirements and how they translate into application/system features, including proposing ideas of your own to solve business problems
• Enhancing existing systems and developing new systems according to the user requirements
• Contributing high quality, well tested source code to our codebases

Skills & Experience:

Required:

• Experience writing code in 1 or more programming languages and a strong interest in developing your software engineering expertise
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving capability
• Ability to learn quickly and work with varied programming languages and technologies
• A team player with excellent communication skills

Desirable:

• Python programming experience
• Rust programming experience
• A track record of contributions to an open source project
• Linux/Unix experience
• Microsoft Windows experience
• Cloud computing experience (AWS primarily)

Competencies

• Technical Skills - Demonstrates strong technical skills required for the role, pays attention to detail, takes initiative to broaden his/her knowledge and demonstrates appropriate analytical skills
• Drive and Motivation – Be a self-starter; successfully handles multiple tasks, takes initiative to improve his/her own performance, works intensely towards extremely challenging goals and persists in the face of obstacles or setbacks
• Client and Business Focus - Effectively handles difficult requests, builds trusting, long-term relationships with clients and service providers, helps the client to identify/define needs and manages client/business expectations
• Teamwork – Demonstrate evidence of being a strong team player, collaborates with others within and across teams, encourages other team members to participate and contribute and acknowledges others' contributions
• Communication Skills - Communicates what is relevant and important in a clear and concise manner and shares information/new ideas with others
• Judgement and Problem solving - Thinks ahead, anticipates questions, plans for contingencies, finds alternative solutions and identifies clear objectives. Sees the big picture and effectively analyses complex issues
• Creativity/Innovation - Looks for new ways to improve current processes and develop creative solutions that are grounded in reality and have practical value
• Influencing Outcomes - Presents sound, persuasive rationale for ideas or opinions. Takes a position on issues and influences others' opinions and presents persuasive recommendations

Disclaimer This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. It is not intended to be a complete list of assigned duties, but to describe a position level.  The role shall be performed within a professional office environment. Rothesay has health and safety polices that are available for all workers upon request.  There are no specific health risks associated with the role.

Inclusion Rothesay actively promotes diversity and inclusivity. We know that our success depends on our people and that by nurturing a culture that values difference, we create a stronger, more dynamic business. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.

The collection of applicant diversity data allows Rothesay to map and gain insights into the impact of our DEI strategy for talent attraction. This data is anonymised and is not analysed against individual applications. By requesting mapping our applicants’ demographic profiles, we can identify the under-represented groups. This enables us to identify any barriers to increasing our diversity and take action.