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Mid Level Engineer (JavaScript) - Volcanic

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Mid Level Engineer (JavaScript) - Volcanic

Posted 11 months ago

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 we’re 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 about?

At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this passion 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 Profit’s to Construction, and many more.

We're 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:

You are a skilled and enthusiastic engineer, who wants to work as part of an engineering team working on a variety of products and technologies using a range of frameworks, modern techniques, patterns, and practices.

You take pride in your work and enjoy working as part of team, delivering quality software that will make a difference to our customers.

You have the desire to work with a team of engineers to build user experiences that never cease to amaze your users!

You want an opportunity to improve your skills, continually training and growing as an engineer. Continual training, upskilling, and growth are as important as prior experience.

Day-to-day, you will:

  • Write elegant, efficient, and testable code that is easy to maintain and debug
  • Develop new components and web applications
  • Debug, troubleshoot & maintain existing web applications and strive to make them better
  • Identifying performance issues and bugs, and providing solutions to these problems
  • Participating in code reviews and sprint ceremonies
  • Provide internal support for the components and web applications owned by the team.
  • Work in an Agile (Scrum) team, delivering high quality software focused 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.

Your skills and experiences might also include:

  • Has extensive experience with React in building dynamic Single Page Applications (SPA)
  • Strong personality and communication skills in making sure that your ideas are heard and understood
  • Develop, debug, troubleshoot & maintain existing web applications and strive to make them better
  • Strong understanding of popular software testing patterns and experience with TDD and BDD is a plus!
  • Have a good understanding in NodeJS runtime and REST APIs.
  • Having experience with Typescript & GraphQL APIs is a plus!
  • Strong knowledge in HTML & CSS and some pre-processors (i.e. SCSS)
  • Strong knowledge in JavaScript and how it runs internally (we'll ask you about the event loop)
  • Have worked with SQL databases before, preferably PostgreSQL.
  • Some experience with serverless applications (AWS Lambda) is a plus.
  • Strong understanding in Webpack, Rollup and the JavaScript build eco-system.
  • Self-motivated and keen to learn new technologies.

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 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 wellbeing days taking you to 25 days leave a year and a health contribution you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organization that gives back so you’ll also have 3 charity days you can take to support something that matters to you.

At Access we’re 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 doesn’t match perfectly, we’d still love to hear from you. You might just be whom we are looking for.

We love the fact that we’re 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, it’s just more fun!

What’s holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family!

Love Work. Love Life. Be You