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.

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:

• An exciting role within the People Division, you will manage approximately 7 direct reports across 2 Delta Squads (typically 4 engineers per squad), leading AI-augmented teams working on core SaaS payroll products within the People Division SMB portfolio. You will operate as a player/manager, running your own Delta Pod while providing technical leadership across your squads.
• You will have demonstrable experience with or possess a strong aptitude for AI-augmented development tools. You're excited about leveraging autonomous AI developers (like Devin) to multiply team productivity and comfortable coaching others to adopt new AI-powered workflows. You will complete Delta Certification (Levels 100 – 300) within your first quarter.
• You will be accountable for the engineering delivery of agreed roadmap, technical and quality deliverables of the team.
• You will contribute to engineering processes within the team, whilst ensuring the team delivers projects, maintains technical and quality standards and is motivated and engaged.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Lead a team that will design and develop software solutions to meet agreed acceptance criteria and stories using a range of languages and technologies. Ensure development standards are established, known, and followed within the Scrum team.
• Drive high-performance culture through SMART quarterly objectives aligned with FY26 strategic goals, and beyond. You will conduct quarterly ESP (Employee Success Plan) reviews, ensuring each team member has at least 3 measurable objectives, and manage performance calibration to achieve appropriate distribution across high performing, performing, and under-performing categories.
• Contribute to the strategic development of the Paycircle product 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.

Your skills and experiences to include:

This product is a SaaS, multi-tenanted application wherein the technology stack includes but is not limited to:

• C#, .NET Framework, SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), Microservices, WCF, Azure service Fabric, Web API, REST, JSON, Angular, AngularJS
• SQL integration (ADO.NET, EF, LINQ)., HTML, CSS, JavaScript / TypeScript, Visual Studio & VS Code
• Automated Build (CI) and Deployments, Azure DevOps, Git-based Source Control
• Devin (AI autonomous developer platform); Claude (AI assistant for requirements, research, strategy); Experience with AI-augmented development workflows; Familiarity with measuring AI productivity multipliers

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.