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Meet Unit4. With over 40 years of heritage, we're an agile, fast growing, Cloud company that is on a mission to redefine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for mid-market people-centric organisations.
With our innovative, self-driving, adaptive and intuitive software, our customers can spend more time on meaningful high-value work.
At the heart of what we do lies a simple yet profound purpose: Improve how people work by focusing on what truly matters. A powerful statement that enables different priorities for different people.
We're shaping how work should feel, and we empower our people by providing them with the right tools to achieve the autonomy they need - it's what makes us unique.
About this internship
For most of its history, software engineering has been the work of translation. A person who understood a problem handed it to a person who could write code,
and the second person turned that understanding into instructions a machine would follow. The instructions were the artifact. The understanding lived upstream and rarely survived the trip intact.
That arrangement is ending. Software can now generate working code from a clear description of what it should do and why. The scarce skill is no longer writing the instructions. It is stating the intent precisely enough that the rest can be handed to a machine. This is what spec-driven development means, and it changes who is good at this work.
Stating intent well is not a coding skill. It is the ability to understand a problem, and to understand your own understanding of it at one level above. To notice an assumption nobody made explicit. To find ambiguity in a sentence before it becomes a defect. To know what a request means and not only what it says. Philosophy, psychology, linguistics, law, and design train these habits as deliberat