Back-End Engineer

We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow. 
 

Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them. 
 

What does Access offer you? 
 

We offer a blended approach to office working, encouraging you to collaborate and connect in one of our thriving offices. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career. 
 

On top of a competitive salary, our wellbeing days taking you to 25 days leave a year and a health contribution, you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We’re an organisation that likes to give back, so you’ll also have three charity days allocated to support a cause that matters to you. 

About you: 

This role offers an excellent opportunity for a motivated developer to grow their career while working on strategic initiatives that directly impact Access Group's software portfolio. You'll have the chance to develop your skills across a wide range of technologies while contributing to significant business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop software solutions to meet agreed acceptance criteria and stories using a range of languages and technologies
• Write clean, self-documenting code that is well structured, well-named, simple and easy to read
• Actively contribute to requirements discussions and requirements analysis, and take responsibility for understanding scope, risk and complexity of changes
• Analyse, identify and fix root cause of defects throughout the various layers of an application
• Identify, compartmentalize and execute refactoring where commercially/technically necessary
• Environment management, management and automation of deployments, understanding and administering of development toolchain
• Support the team's sprint deliverables, through proactive contribution to planning, ownership of tasks, identification of dependencies and basic risk management
• Actively promote a quality focused approach within the team, showing ownership for QA activities and collaboration with the QA team. Prepared to test own work and that of others to ensure quality.
• Helps to ensure value is achieved through development by understanding customer requirements, identifying dependencies and risk, and clearly communicating and escalating where appropriate

Core Competencies:

• Communicates effectively with team members and stakeholders, adapting style to suit the audience. Collaborates well across teams.
• Provides clear, actionable feedback on requirements, identifying gaps and ambiguities.
• Writes clean, self-explanatory code with well-organized methods and classes. Refactors for readability with awareness of technical and business impacts.
• Follows source control procedures, handles commits, merges, and conflicts, including some non-standard tasks.
• Efficiently identifies defects, demonstrates unit and integration testing, and uses telemetry to debug live applications.
• Understands build and deployment processes, troubleshoots issues, provides post-mortems, and suggests improvements. Recognizes system dependencies and raises development risks.
• Actively contributes to sprint planning, offering input on capacity, priorities, and blockers. Ensures deliverables meet the Definition of Done.
• Applies QA best practices, collaborates to detect defects early, and understands the impact of branching, merging, and environment management.
• Supports environment setup, understands system interactions and dependencies, and is familiar with production and admin processes.
• Selects appropriate design patterns and explains choices. Optimizes data structures for performance while maintaining integrity.
• Demonstrates strong product knowledge and understands development value.
• Takes ownership of team retrospectives and goals.

What are we all about? 
 

The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered business management software providers. It provides solutions that empower more than 160,000 small and mid-sized organisations in commercial and non-profit sectors across Europe, USA and APAC, giving every employee the freedom to do more of what's important. Its innovative cloud solutions and integrated AI software experience across multiple Access products transform how business technology is used. Access employs approx. 8,500 people, continuously driving product innovation and customer service excellence. 

At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. 
 

Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let's make a difference together. 

Love Work. Love Life. Be You.