Summit API Developer: Graduate Programme 2025 - PHI Partners

About Phi’s Graduate Programme

Phi’s 2025 graduate programme starts in September. You will join Phi as part of a community of graduates – like-minded, talented young people with whom you will form not just professional but also social bonds that may last a lifetime.

Under our two-year programme, our graduates begin their journey at Phi with four to six weeks of intensive classroom-based training, delivered by our business and technical experts. After the intensive training, you will join your first client-facing team as Junior Consultant, and you will be assigned a Learning Buddy, a senior colleague who will help you navigate these first steps of your career.

Your training doesn’t stop there. You will continue formal training over the two years, and we will make sure time is made available for this. In parallel with the experience that you gain in your client role, we will give you all the support you need to develop the all-round consulting skills necessary for promotion to Consultant at the end of the two-year programme.

At Phi we pride ourselves that all our employees – including the most senior subject matter experts – are friendly and approachable. With a focus on teamwork and knowledge sharing, we value every employee and their ongoing learning and development.

About the role

Team player in one of our international project teams, either in Bucharest (Romania) or on client-site all over Europe.

You will be:

• Working across the whole financial industry sector to address technology challenges
• Leveraging the expertise of our teams to shape our client’s technology agenda
• Helping our clients plan and deliver technological transformation programmes

You will also get the opportunity to travel to different locations all over Europe and beyond, but this is not mandatory. In the role of a “Summit API Developer”, your primary career development focus will lie on software development in C++ and C#/.Net for our capital markets clients in Europe and beyond.

About you

We are looking for people who are open to new ideas, hungry for knowledge and who will be actively looking for new ways to learn.

You will be:

• A great listener and able to understand and analyse information quickly
• Resilient and learn how to tackle challenges whilst having a positive attitude in overcoming obstacles
• A team player that works well with other people, builds his own networks and delivers great work
• Curious and understand the importance of continuous innovation and creativity as these skills are key for a successful career at Phi Partners
• Adaptable in a constantly changing world where you will use your creativity to find innovative solutions. You will not let obstacles stand in the way of doing a job well
• Very bright, with strong analytical skills
• Solution oriented in a no-blame culture
• Able to transform criticism into learning progress instead of conflicts
• Highly self-motivated with a strong will to deliver outstanding work results on time
• A strong communicator with the ability to summarize complex topics in simple terms
• A friendly sociable team worker in a respectful work environment, keen to help people, with a strong service orientation Proactive
• Eager to learn

You will need to:

• Constantly learn and develop, have the ability to grasp new ideas and concepts quickly and apply this learning to ensure the best possible outcomes for our clients
• Filter complex information into simple terms
• Inspire confidence and build trust in others

Education

• Master of Science degree with at least one semester of Computer Science
• Alternatively, Bachelor of Science degree with a minimum of six months of IT related practice

Key requirements

• Object oriented programming (C++) at an educational level or from personal projects Knowledge of basic algorithms
• Familiarity with Design Patterns
• Additional skills in C#, Java, SQL, Shell Scripts, Perl or Python, XML/XSLTs would be a plus Good scripting knowledge e.g. Bash, Shell, C-Shell, Korn-Shell, Perl, Python
• Generic SQL and some administrative knowledge about DBMS
• Debugging on Windows and Linux systems
• Good operating system knowledge on Windows and Linux

What we expect from our junior consultants

Quality & timeliness of delivery

• is highly self-motivated with a strong will to deliver outstanding work results on time
• respects and adheres to own and team schedules; complies to working hours, meetings and agreed delivery dates

Teamwork

• is a team player that works well with other people
• is able to transform constructive feedback into learning progress instead of conflicts
• is reliable & responsible
• is engaged and actively supports achieving team’s goals

Problem solving

• has strong analytical skills
• can identify most occurring problems uses creativity to find innovative solutions.
• can filter complex information into simple terms
• provides input in evaluating options using best judgement
• helps implement solution

Flexible thinking

• is naturally curious and understands the importance of continuous innovation and creativity as these skills are key for a successful career at Phi
• is resilient and learn how to tackle challenges whilst having a positive attitude in overcoming obstacles
• constantly learns and develops, can grasp new ideas and concepts quickly and applies this learning to ensure the best possible outcomes for our clients

Communication & relationship building 

• is a friendly and sociable colleague, keen to help people, with a strong service orientation
• is a strong communicator with the ability to summarise complex topics in simple terms
• inspires confidence and build trust in others
• is solution oriented in a no-blame culture, expressing ideas assertively

About our offer

• Competitive package in an international IT consultancy
• Accelerated career progression with 2-years training and development plan
• Working with market leaders and best people from the industry
• Work on client sites all over Europe or locally from Bucharest
• Gym-membership
• Health insurance
• Mobile phone

Next steps

If you think you have what it takes to become one of our expert consultants and to collaborate with some of the most talented people in their fields, contact us at careers@phipartners.com

We receive a high volume of applications, and while we carefully review each one, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within two weeks, unfortunately, your application has not progressed to the next stage.

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