Software Engineer
Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!
Our core value of ‘Love Work, Love Life, Be You’ has been central to our success and so we’re looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow.
We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026.
What are we all about?
At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit’s to Construction, and many more.
We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more.
About you:
- You are a team player with a robust work ethic who enjoys shared success
- You are collaborative, pragmatic, positive, assertive, commercially aware and driven to continuous learning/improvement
- You demonstrate great communication skills and are able to communicate with, and advise stakeholders in various departments at various levels and client technical teams
- You demonstrate excellent technical problem solving skills
- You write clear & self-documenting code, organises methods and classes appropriately. Able to refactor existing code to improve readability. Good understanding of technical and commercial drivers when making decisions on refactoring.
- You strive for success, are keen to learn and develop
- You have a can-do attitude and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
- You genuinely care about quality; collaboratively work with your team-mates to embed quality wherever possible
- You write clear & self-documenting code, organises methods and classes appropriately. Able to refactor existing code to improve readability. Good understanding of technical and commercial drivers when making decisions on refactoring.
Day-to-day, you will:
- · Design and develop software solutions in collaboration with our product, development and content teams by using a range of languages and technologies such as:
- o C#
- o ASP.Net Core, ASP.NET 4+, ASP.Net MVC
- o REST
- o SQL
- o Entity Framework
- o Web API
- o React
- o Javascript, jQuery, Typescript
- Build new and improve existing cutting edge SaaS products
- Actively contribute to requirements discussions.
- Analyse, identify and fix of root cause of defects, throughout the various layers of the application.
- Contribute to management of effective CI Pipeline and source control.
- Support the team's deliverables, through proactive contribution to planning, ownership of tasks, identification of dependencies and basic risk management
- Actively promote a quality focussed approach
Your skills and experiences might also include:
- Demonstrate a positive approach
- Genuine interest in learning/implementing best practices of software development techniques, including specific approaches for SaaS and web based products
- Attention to detail
- Willing to work in a fast-paced, Agile environment
- Able to prioritise a demanding workload
- Excellent communication and time management skills
- Desire to work with a highly successful team to achieve the deadlines to deliver product releases
- Show a commitment to self-development and lifelong learning
- Be confident with debugging of web applications
- Minimum 2 years of commercial development experience, ideally full-stack
- Knowledge of range of languages and technologies such as:
- C#
- ASP.Net Core, ASP.NET 4+, ASP.Net MVC
- SQL
- Entity Framework
- Web API
- HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery
Desirable:
- REACT knowledge/experience
- Knowledge of Azure DevOps Continuous Integration & Deployment
- Awareness of security best practices in software development.
- Azure/Aws experience.
What does Access offer you?
We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.
On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you’re with us), and a matched pension scheme you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you’ll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you.
At Access we’re all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t match perfectly, we’d still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for.
We love the fact that we’re all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it’s just more fun!
What’s holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family!
Love Work. Love Life. Be You.