Developer

Access Group ,
Loughborough, Leicestershire

Overview

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: This accounting product is the core SaaS product within the FMS division. Working in a team to build features and make changes within the SaaS product in order to encourage transition from our on premise offering of a similar product. Day-to-day: • Design and develop software solutions to meet agreed acceptance criteria and stories using a range of languages and technologies. • Actively contribute to requirements discussions. • Analyse, identify and fix of root cause of defects, throughout the various layers of the application • Identify, compartmentalise and execute refactoring where commercially/technically necessary • Contribute to management of effective CI Pipeline and source control • Support the team's sprint deliverables, through proactive contribution to planning, ownership of tasks, identification of dependencies and basic risk management • Actively promote a quality focussed approach About you: • You can communicate well with team members and stakeholders on deliverables and approach, demonstrating the ability to communicate and listen appropriately depending on the audience. • You write clear & self-documenting code, organises methods and classes appropriately. Able to refactor existing code to improve readability. Good understanding of technical and commercial drivers when making decisions on refactoring. • You can provide comprehensive requirements feedback, highlighting omissions, gaps and potential areas of confusion • You can follow pre-defined source control procedure, committing and merging code, dealing with conflicts. • You can efficiently prove the source of defects and demonstrate unit tests and integration testing for eventual pathways following the proposed fix. • You play an active role in sprint planning and management, making recommendations in planning in terms of capacity, priorities, risks or blockers. • You have a good understanding of QA best practice. • You can contribute to the setting up of a development environment, and you have good working knowledge of build and deployment steps. • You are aware of trending design patterns in the technologies you work in and can select the best design pattern for the job in hand, articulating to others why this has been chosen. • You strive for success, are keen to learn and develop, are collaborative with a can-do attitude, and can build positive relationships. As a well-rounded Developer, you will have: • Demonstrable experience with the technologies used in the required product. • Work experience as a member in a scrum team or within an agile environment. 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 This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89769448