Front End Developer - Product Development and Management

Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!

Our core value of ‘Love work, Love life’ has been central to our success and so we’re looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day, to help us become a top 10 Software company.

Are you ready for the challenge?

What are we all about?

At Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more.

We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That's why over 1 million users and over 10,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive. 

Front End Developer (UX Team)

We are looking for a Front-end developer to work within our Product Development team in our Loughborough office.

This is a challenging role in an exciting fast paced company with lots of opportunity to work on a variety of interesting projects.

In this role you will work directly with our UX and internal development team, distributed across the UK, to help implement a unified user experience across our extensive & diverse portfolio of SaaS solutions on the Access Workspace platform.

Working as part of an ambitious team, you will have the opportunity to have a big impact on our SaSS solutions across the group, building and maintaining new components and helping to drive the next version of our Experience Language and Component Library.

The ideal candidate will be working within a similar position currently and have sound, demonstrable commercial experience of working on SaaS products on mobile or desktop platforms or developing Style Guides and Design Systems.

About you:

• You are an accomplished Frontend developer building high quality software ideally using ReactJS.
• You take pride in your work, ensuring that we delight users with our software and make their lives easier every day.
• You demonstrate the ability to prioritise your work, and help unblock others, in accordance with sprint goals.
• You display ownership, responsibility, and good decision-making.
• You have a strong understanding of software industry development standards, applying them appropriately to the scenario at hand.
• You have a good understanding of source code management best practice (using Git), and ability to troubleshoot issues.
• You have the ability and motivation to test your own work and that of others to ensure we maintain our high-quality standards.
• You have direct experience working with delivery pipelines, contributing to a shared codebase.
• You have a great eye for detail and can easily convert designs into pixel perfect code. Knows the team standards and rules inside out. You’re able to suggest styling changes to fix and assist others and debug code

Day-to-day, you will:

• Work in an Agile (Scrum) team, delivering high quality software focussed on delivering team results through both your individual contribution, and assisting other team members.
• Actively contribute to refinement, and take responsibility for understanding scope, risk and complexity of changes from inception through to delivery.
• Contribute to the continuous development of processes and improvements.
• Identify and remove technical debt, providing good business justification for prioritisation.
• Analyse, identify and fix root cause of defects throughout the various layers of a platform.
• Understand, identify and adhere to design patterns, coding standards and Definition of Done.
• Design and develop software solutions to agreed requirements using a range of languages and technologies including HTML, JavaScript, CSS and ReactJS.
• Creation of technical documentation where required.
• Take ownership of key technical components or areas of code.

As a well-rounded Frontend Developer, your Skills and Experiences likely include:

• Technology & Tools:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Sass
• ReactJS
• Visual Studio Code
• DevTools
• Automated Build (CI) and Deployments
• Jenkins/Azure DevOps
• Git-based Source Control

• Desirable Experience:

• TypeScript
• Custom Web Compilers such as StencilJS

What does Access offer you?

We are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to make you successful. We will help you carve out your career path. You will enjoy lots of training both in the UK and in Romania to accelerate your career.

In addition to a competitive salary and the opportunity to grow, you will enjoy a fun environment on top of our standard benefits.