Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become 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, to help us become a UK 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. Role-specific: • Demonstrated expertise in designing, writing, and unit-testing high-quality, scalable code using Java 8+, with extensive experience in Spring, Spring Boot, and build tools like Gradle or Maven. • Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with Gradle and Maven for efficient dependency management in enterprise applications. • Proven experience with distributed caching and authentication tools like Redis, Keycloak, and application servers such as WildFly. • Extensive experience with Hibernate and working with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, with a strong preference for MSSQL. • Comprehensive understanding and application of Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines or similar DevOps frameworks to automate and streamline deployments. • Solid foundation in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and jQuery, with the ability to debug and troubleshoot complex issues across the full stack. • Skilled in designing and implementing robust and efficient RESTful APIs that meet business and technical requirements. • Familiarity with modern frontend technologies such as Angular, React, and npm, with the ability to collaborate effectively on full-stack projects. • Deep understanding and practical experience with Azure Service Bus, Blob Storage, Function Apps, and Application Insights for building cloud-native and highly available applications. • Strong knowledge of OWASP security principles and accessibility standards like WCAG, ensuring secure and inclusive application development. • Proficient in using tools such as Infinispan, Postman, Selenium, and BrowserStack to support development, testing, and debugging processes. • Availability to join on-call rota if needed. About you: • You are collaborative and pragmatic. You’re able to 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 your message according to the target audience, in order 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 the 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 implement and manage efficient CI pipelines for highly available distributed systems. • You can design source control structures, select or modify tool chain and deployment processes, and are aware of design patterns in the technologies you work in. • You keep abreast of technical developments in the industry and are aware of the evolution in the various technologies you work in. • You pro-actively seek to coach, guide and advise junior teammates; you demonstrate humility (understanding limits of knowledge) and strive to develop gaps in technical and soft skills; you demonstrate individual ownership and ownership of project and sprint deliverables within the team. Day-to-day, you will: • Design and develop software solutions to meet agreed acceptance criteria and stories using a range of languages and technologies. Ensure dev standards are established, known and followed within Scrum team. • Actively participate in requirements analysis • Analyse, identify and fix root cause of defects, using debugging techniques and tools • Identify, compartmentalise and execute refactoring where commercially/technically necessary, with a focus on maintainability • Proactively contribute to Technical Roadmap, demonstrating good understanding of technical, commercial and risk factors, and recommending priorities. • Management of effective CI Pipeline and source control • Own, manage and be accountable for specific projects and deliverables, managing risks and dependencies with autonomy. • Provide technical leadership, guidance and direction to other members of the development team • Champion a quality focused approach showing ownership for QA activities and collaboration with the QA team. Prepared to test your own work and that of others to ensure quality. As a well-rounded Senior Developer, your Skills and Experiences will likely include: • Demonstrable experience with the technologies used in the required product, requirements analysis and environments management. • Work experience as a member in a scrum team. • Demonstrable experience of owning and driving successful delivery of projects. 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 carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. • Healthy, friendly, and inclusive culture • Work - life balance • Hybrid/Remote working • Flexible working hours • Competitive salary package • Great Holiday Package (starting from 25) • Charity day – day off paid by the company for volunteering activities • Private Healthcare & Life Insurance • 7 Card Sport Allowance • Meal tickets • Referral Bonus • Christmas Bonus • Big Break – all-inclusive holiday paid by the company • Other benefits At Access we’re all about helping everyone Love Work, Love Life and Be you. 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 who 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!