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Senior Java Developer

Posted almost 2 years ago

Senior Java Engineer

 

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 achieve 2 million users of the Access Workspace platform.

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 35,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive.

 

About you:

You:

  • Will be an accomplished Full Stack Java developer building high quality software using HTML/JS/CSS that runs cross-browser on the client side, and predominantly using middle-tier and backend technologies built on the Spring Boot Framework.
  • Will use modern techniques to build accessible, scalable and evolvable APIs that are robust and stand the test of time.
  • Will take pride in your work and the work of your team, to ensure that we delight users with our software and make their lives easier every day.
  • Will demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and plan Dev sprint/release activities, prioritising according to risk and changes in delivery schedule.
  • Will display ownership, responsibility and good decision-making, and will be able to coach and co-ordinate team-mates to achieve project deliverables.
  • Will have a good understanding of software industry development standards, applying them appropriately to the scenario at hand.
  • Will have the ability to manage and fully automate deployments or products and their dependencies across multiple physical and logical environments.
  • Will have a good understanding of source code management best practice (using Git), and ability to troubleshoot issues.
  • Will have the ability and motivation to test your own work and that of others to ensure we maintain our high quality standards.

Day-to-day, you will:

  • Take responsibility for assessing the risk of development tasks, taking into account technical and commercial factors, make risk-based recommendations and decisions.
  • Provide technical leadership, guidance and direction to other members of the development team
  • Work in an Agile (Scrum) team, delivering high quality software focussed 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.
  • Communicate and collaborate with stakeholders on deliverables and approach.
  • Contribute to the continuous development of processes and improvements.
  • Identify, compartmentalise and execute refactoring where commercially/technically necessary.
  • Be able to analyse, identify and fix root cause of defects throughout the various layers of an application.
  • Understand, identify and adhere to our preferred design patterns, coding standards and definition of done.
  • Design and develop software solutions to agreed and elaborated requirements using a range of languages and technologies including Java, JavaScript and SQL Server.
  • Help ensure agreed agile delivery process and approach is followed, including estimation/planning, Scrum activities, release and project management.
  • Champion a quality focussed approach including: good planning; branching, environment and codebase management; promoting/participating in early discovery of defects; code reviews; unit testing where appropriate; and collaboration with the QA team.
  • Report to Development Lead and Head of Development on progress and areas of risk, including metrics where requested.
  • Creation of technical documentation where required.
  • Work in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures.

 

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

  • A passion for software and technology
  • Quick learning capability, easily picking up new technical concepts
  • High standard of written and spoken English
  • Open and collaborative style
  • A creative and innovative problem solver
  • Can commit to delivering and maintaining high standards
  • Manage time efficiently and effectively
  • Commercially pragmatic and driven to continuous learning/improvement

 

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.

In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday, a match contributory pension and healthcare you will get:  

  • A Competitive Salary
  • Giving Back/Charity days
  • Quarterly Socials
  • 6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service)
  • The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain

 

Become part of our amazing Access family!

 

At Access we're all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life because we believe people can only be at their best when they can be themselves, love what they do and do what they love.

We love the fact that we’re all different. Having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us support our customers, and when you think about it, it's just more fun. So, no matter what makes you individual, as long as you’re qualified, we can’t wait for your application.