Senior Software 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. 

Role Overview

An exciting role working on one of our SaaS products. You will join a passionate and experienced team responsible for the development and maintenance, serving small-medium sized businesses across the globe.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop software solutions to meet agreed acceptance criteria and stories using a range of languages and technologies.

• Provide technical leadership, guidance and direction to other members of the development team, including mentoring junior members of staff.

• Ensure dev standards are established, known and followed within Scrum team.

• Actively participate in requirements analysis.

• Analyse, identify and fix of root cause of defects, using debugging techniques and tools.

• Identify, compartmentalise and execute refactoring where commercially/technically necessary, with a focus on maintainability.

• Proactively contribute to Technical Roadmap, demonstrating good understanding of technical, commercial and risk factors, and recommending priorities.

• Management of effective CI Pipeline and source control.

• Own, manage and be accountable for specific projects and deliverables, managing risks and dependencies with autonomy.

Skills, knowledge, experience likely include

• At least 5 years' experience in industry using our core technologies:

  • C# and .NET Framework

  • Modern JavaScript frameworks, ideally VueJs or React

  • Typescript

• Experience with Azure Cloud or other modern cloud infrastructure providers.

• Understanding of authentication and authorisation protocols, particularly OAuth.

• Azure DevOps Continuous Integration Deployment or other DevOps tooling.

• Unit testing complex software solutions including knowledge of industry standard testing frameworks.

• Experience architecting and developing performant, scalable SaaS web-based systems.

• Deep understanding of software design patterns, architecture principles, and when to apply them.

• Understanding of agile software development principles and practices.

• Understanding of technical issues and considerations and ability to provide constructive feedback to the development team and other stakeholders.

• Performing code reviews and providing detailed technical feedback.

• Excellent documentation skills, attention to detail and an ability to communicate detailed technical issues to stakeholders and to the internal business/project team.

• Eager to experiment with and integrate new technologies into your workflow, from AI-assisted development tools to emerging frameworks and practices.

• Proven ability to take ownership of projects from conception through to production

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.