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 flexible, hybrid working environment where you can balance work and life while maintaining a strong office team-based culture. 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. You will start with 25 days annual leave that increases with your seniority in the company, a private healthcare and life insurance. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you’ll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you. There are plenty of other perks. Apply to find out more. About you: • You are an accomplished Full Stack Engineer with some leadership experience, and a background of building high quality software, ideally in a SaaS business. • You are proficient with Microsoft technologies and have a strong understanding of cloud technology, preferably Azure. • You enjoy the challenge of maturing teams towards self-management. You are keen to apply your expertise in technical solutions and enable your team to get valuable work to ‘done’. • You coach the team to use modern techniques, patterns and practises to build accessible, scalable and evolvable software that is robust and stands the test of time. APIs must maintain appropriate backwards compatibility through agreeing and managing contracts and will often be consumed by 3rd parties. • You take pride in your work and the work of your team, to ensure that we delight users with our software and make their lives easier every day. • You demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and plan engineering sprint/release activities, prioritising according to risk and changes in delivery schedule. • You work closely with your peers to ensure cross-team and cross-division activities are performed cohesively and efficiently, delivering the desired results for the business. • You display ownership, responsibility and good decision-making, and will be able to coach and co-ordinate team-mates to achieve deliverables. • You have a good understanding of software industry engineering standards, applying them appropriately to the scenario at hand. • You can manage and fully automate deployments or products and their dependencies across multiple physical and logical environments. • You have a good understanding of source code management best practice (using Git), and ability to troubleshoot issues. • You test your own work and instil a quality first mentality in your team to ensure we maintain our high standards. • You are commercially aware and can work closely with the product team and stakeholders to ensure that everything we do is commercially appropriate. Day-to-day, you will: • Contribute to the strategic development of the Access Workspace Platform through your leadership of an Agile team, whilst working collaboratively with your peers to ensure a ‘joined up approach’ is consistently taken. • Lead by hands-on example, driving both technical excellence and high individual/team performance throughout the development process. • Provide technical leadership, guidance and direction to the team, whilst ultimately taking accountability for their deliverables. • Ensure software is designed and built to a high standard, according to the team’s Definition of Done. Inspect and adapt that Definition of Done with your team. • Take responsibility for assessing the risk of development tasks, taking into account technical and commercial factors, and make risk-based recommendations and decisions. • Help ensure all engineers within the team understand the scope, risk and complexity of changes by challenging and providing feedback to the stories and acceptance criteria. • Champion technical debt and its priority within the roadmap. Work with product representatives to ensure technical requirements are well understood and expressed in business value terms. • Design and develop software solutions to agreed requirements using front-end and back-end technologies. • Adhere and contribute to department coding standards and suggest improvements to them. • Code review other engineers work, providing constructive feedback, advising on best practice & coding standards. • Drive the development of processes and improvements. • Ensure the team creates the appropriate technical documentation where required, both for internal and external consumption. • Report to Engineering Manager on progress and areas of risk, including metrics where requested. • Provide motivational leadership, mentoring and coaching to the team, including on best practice and approaches, and the continuous improvement of these. • Manage career and skills development, performance, holidays and workloads of your team. • Work in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures. Your skills and experiences might also include: • Technology & Tools: o HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Jest o CSS pre-processors (Sass, Less, etc) o .NET / .NET Core & ASP.NET o Visual Studio & VS Code o Browser DevTools o SQL or NoSQL-based database engines o Automated Build (CI) and Deployments : Azure DevOps o Git-based Source Control o Azure DevOps boards • Desirable Experience: o Experience working in a SaaS software business o TypeScript o Experience creating public APIs for consumption by 3rd parties o GraphQL o Azure PaaS services (e.g. App Service, CosmosDB, Service Bus) o Accessibility requirements o Front-end test automation What are we all about? The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace. 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.