Software Engineer

Job Description

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 were 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 aboutAt Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. Its 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 Profitsto Construction, and many more. Were 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:• Will be an accomplished Full Stack Java developer building high quality software using HTML/JS/CSS that runs cross-browser on the client side.• Experience with front end JavaScript frameworks such as JQuery, React.JS.• Excellent backend core Java skills, predominantly using middle-tier and backend technologies built on the Spring Boot Framework.• Interoperability experience using REST APIs. Understanding of modern techniques to build accessible, scalable and evolvable APIs that are robust and stand the test of time.• Strong Database & SQL skills, able to write complex performant SQL queries in both MSSQL and Oracle.• Experience of automation frameworks such as Selenium, Jasmine, TestNG, UnitTesting, DBUnt. • Will 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.• Will demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and plan Dev sprint/release activities, prioritising according to risk and changes in delivery schedule.• Will display ownership, responsibility and good decision-making, and will be able to coach and co-ordinate team-mates to achieve project deliverables.• Will have a good understanding of software industry development standards and application security, applying them appropriately to the scenario at hand.• Will have the ability to manage and fully automate deployments or products and their dependencies across multiple physical and logical environments.• Will have a good understanding of source code management best practice (using Git), and ability to troubleshoot issues.• Will have the ability and motivation to test your own work and that of others to ensure we maintain our high quality standards.Day-to-day, you will:• Take responsibility for assessing the risk of development tasks, taking into account technical and commercial factors, make risk-based recommendations and decisions.• Provide technical leadership, guidance and direction to other members of the development team• Work in an Agile (Scrum) team, delivering high quality software focussed on delivering team results through your individual contribution.• Actively contribute to requirements discussions and requirements analysis, and take responsibility for understanding scope, risk and complexity of changes from inception through to delivery.• Communicate and collaborate with stakeholders on deliverables and approach.• Contribute to the continuous development of processes and improvements.• Identify, compartmentalise and execute refactoring where commercially/technically necessary.• Be able to analyse, identify and fix root cause of defects throughout the various layers of an application.• Understand, identify and adhere to our preferred design patterns, coding standards and definition of done.• Design and develop software solutions to agreed and elaborated requirements using a range of languages and technologies including Java, JavaScript and SQL Server.Your skills and experiences might also include: • A passion for software and technology• Quick learning capability, easily picking up new technical concepts• High standard of written and spoken English• Open and collaborative style• A creative and innovative problem solver• Can commit to delivering and maintaining high standards• Manage time efficiently and effectively• Commercially pragmatic and driven to continuous learning/improvementWhat does Access offer youWe 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 youre with us), and a matched pension scheme youll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives backso youll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you. At Access were 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 doesnt match perfectly, wed still loveto hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for. We love the fact that were 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, its just more fun!Whats holding you back Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family! Love Work. Love Life. Be You.