Job Description

We\'re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow.Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what\'s important to them.What does Access offer you?
We offer a flexible, hybrid working environment where you can balance work and life while maintaining a strong office team-based culture. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We\'ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.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\'re an organisation that likes to give back, so you\'ll also have three charity days allocated to support a cause that matters to you.About you:
You are a dynamic, skilled, high performing, Mobile App Engineer. You have a passion for technology and a keen sense of pride in the work you do. You coach the team to use modern techniques, patterns and practices to build accessible, scalable and evolvable software that is robust. You demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and plan engineering sprint/release activities, prioritising according to risk and changes in the delivery schedule. You work closely with your peers to ensure cross-team and cross-division activities are performed cohesively and efficiently, delivering the desired results for the business. You are constantly seeking to improve both your own skills and the skills of others and enjoy working in a fast paced dynamic company.Day-to-day, you will:

• Design and develop software solutions to meet agreed acceptance criteria using a range of languages and technologies. Ensure engineering standards are established, known and followed within agile team
• Actively participate in requirements analysis: highlight omissions and gaps; pro-actively contribute to discussions; and understand the scope, risk and complexity of changes by challenging and providing feedback to the stories and acceptance criteria
• Analyse, identify and fix of root cause of defects, using debugging techniques and tools
• Identify, compartmentalise and execute refactoring where commercially/technically necessary, with a focus on maintainability

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

• Writes clear and self-documenting code. Good understanding of technical and commercial drivers when making decisions on refactoring.
• Stay up to date with the latest technology. Aware of trending design patterns in the technologies they work in, able to select the best design pattern for the job in hand and articulate to others why this has been chosen.
• Confident in ability to Design, write and unit-test new code using most of the following languages: JavaScript, jQuery, Typescript, CSS 3, HTML 5, React, React-Native, Redux, Java (Android), Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift.
• Good understanding of using Git based version control systems to manage feature development and bug fixing
• Good understanding of working with IoT devices using BLE or equivalent technologies

What are we all about?
The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace.At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you\'re excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn\'t align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let\'s make a difference together.Love Work. Love Life. Be You.

The Access Group