Principal 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.

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 will contribute to engineering processes within the team, whilst ensuring the team delivers projects, maintains technical and quality standards and is motivated and engaged. 

• Quality and usability should be a first-class consideration, baked into the engineering process.

• The product is SaaS, multi-tenanted application and the technology stack includes, but not limited to, C# and .NET Framework, Javascript/Typescript, React , AWS, Azure, SQL, Microservices

• The engineering team have a test driven development methodology adopting agile best practice. 

• Key characteristics for this role: enthusiastic, solutions-focussed, pro-active, loves a challenge, pride in your codebase and the quality of your output, and adaptable.

• Ability to nurture and develop existing and new team members - giving them the opportunity and tools to perform their best. 

Day-to-day, you will:

• Design and develop software solutions to meet agreed acceptance criteria and stories using a range of languages and technologies. Ensures dev standards are established, known, and followed within Scrum team.

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

• Lead a small Agile team by hands-on example, driving technical excellence throughout the development process, and taking accountability for the deliverables of the development team

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

• Manage effective source control, ensuring isolation and ability to manage multiple branches.

• Actively promote a quality focussed approach within the team, showing ownership for QA activities and collaboration with the QA team. Prepared to test own work and that of others to ensure quality.

Your skills and experiences might also include: 

• You can motivate and lead teams, driving career development and high performance, and supporting them to upskill to achieve their potential. 

• You are collaborative and pragmatic. You can communicate with, advise, and guide all stakeholders in various departments at various levels, making recommendations based on risk, commercial factors, technical approach, and strategic objectives. You demonstrate self-awareness and ability to adapt message according to audience to achieve positive results.

• You write clean, self-documenting code that is well structured, well-named, simple, and easy to read. You stay up to date with latest technology.

• You actively promote and show ownership of Quality centred activities.

• You can co-ordinate, plan and manage Dev sprint/release activities. You take responsibility for the entire project, can identify risks early, understand overall project picture and makes decisions/recommendations according to these in order to achieve successful delivery of deliverables autonomously. 

• You can design source control structures, select, or modify toolchain and deployment processes, and are aware of design patterns in the technologies you work in.

• Drives and implements change within the team to achieve Development and business objectives.

• You demonstrate role model behaviours, remain optimistic and committed in the face of challenges and can adapt and flex with changing priorities. 

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.