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 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’re an accomplished Full Stack engineer with some leadership experience, and a background of building high quality software. You are proficient with Microsoft technologies and have a strong understanding of cloud tech.
• You coach the team to use modern techniques, patterns and practices to build accessible, scalable and evolvable APIs that are robust and stand 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 that of your team, to ensure that we delight users with our software and make their lives easier every day.
• You coordinate and plan development/release activities, prioritizing 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 sound decision-making.
• You have a solid understanding of software industry development standards, applying them appropriately to the scenario at hand.
• You have experience of fully automated deployments or products and managing their dependencies across multiple physical and logical environments.
• 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 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 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.
• 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 terms of business value.
• Design and develop software solutions to agreed and elaborated requirements using a range of languages and technologies, including PHP with Laravel, Angular, Vue, Typescript, MySQL, Redis and OpenSearch.
• 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.

As a well-rounded Engineering Team Lead working on our SaaS Platform, your technical skills and experiences likely include:

• Technology & Tools:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Typescript
  • PHP (using Laravel)
  • Angular
  • Vue
  • Visual Studio
  • MySQL
  • Automated Build (CI) and Deployments
  • Git-based Source Control
  • Agile Board Management

• Desirable Experience:
  • Worked in a SaaS software business
  • CSS pre-processors (Less, Sass, etc)
  • Web Components
  • GraphQL
  • OpenId Connect

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.