Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Engineer with strong mobile development experience to work within one of our Products & Engineering squads, developing our central Access Evo Platform and Experience.

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 Product, UX and Engineering teams, distributed across the UK and European geographies, to help implement a consistent, unified user experience across our extensive & diverse portfolio of SaaS solutions on the Access Evo platform. You will play a key role in the end-to-end mobile development lifecycle, including publishing and maintaining our Evo mobile app on the App Store and Google Play.

Working as part of an ambitious team, you will have the opportunity to have a big impact on our SaaS solutions, contributing to our shared Workspace Experience which will be embedded in Access products across the group. You will take technical ownership of epics & features, supporting the Team Lead to break down complex requirements and deliver them.

The ideal candidate will be working within a similar position currently and have sound, demonstrable commercial experience of working on SaaS Cloud-native products. Continuous improvement is important, and it is expected that as an experienced Senior Engineer you can drive improvements within and across squads, influencing both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders.

About you:

· You are an accomplished Senior Engineer with experience building high quality software ideally using a .NET, Azure stack and React

· Design, develop, and maintain mobile applications using React Native for iOS and Android.

· Manage the app publishing process on the App Store and Google Play, ensuring compliance with platform guidelines.

· You have strong experience in developing and maintaining cloud-native platform services and reusable web components

· 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

· You can apply generic programming best practices, e.g. SOLID design principles

· You can ensure quality of the written code through component-level unit tests

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.

• Create technical documentation where required.

• Take ownership of key technical components or areas of code.

• Contribute to quality through collaborating with other team members and support testing where required

• Undertake peer code review alongside other members of team, providing constructive feedback to other developers

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

· Technology & Tools:

o .NET Core

o Cloud-native technologies, platforms & services (Microsoft Azure)

o HTML, CSS & JavaScript

o ReactJS, Jest, Next.js

o React Native and mobile app development for iOS and Android

o Experience with publishing and maintaining apps on the App Store and Google Play

o Automated Build (CI) and Deployments using Azure DevOps

o Git-based Source Control

o APM – Application Insights, New Relic

· Desirable Experience:

o TypeScript

o Accessibility requirements

o Experience working on platform components, considering developer experience (DX) needs

o Knowledge of mobile performance optimization and debugging tools

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.

Become part of our amazing Access family