Job Description

Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a 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 and help us continue to grow. We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026. What are we all about At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It\'s this passion that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit\'s to Construction, and many more. We\'re passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more. Role-specific: We have a very exciting opportunity in our newly created Global Operations Centre (GOC) in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Access is organised on a divisional basis, where each division has its leadership team representing functions such as Development, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Finance and Services. Based in our GOC, this role will be part of our APAC Division\'s Products and Engineering team. As a Squad Leader in this group, you will lead a squad of up to 8 engineers and quality assurance people to deliver on our vision and product growth strategy. You will contribute to the squad\'s people and technical leadership as well as drive the delivery of features and capability for the squad\'s product domain. Our aim is to be a global leader in software solutions and building a delivery centre in Malaysia is key to this objective. About You: You are a skilled and enthusiastic senior engineer, who wants to take leadership of a squad working on a variety of products and technologies. You take pride in your work and the work of your team, delivering quality software that will make a difference to our customers. You want to lead a team, ensuring continual training and growth of the team as engineers. Continual training, upskilling, and growth are as important as prior experience. You want an opportunity to improve your skills and support others in the same, continually training and growing as an engineer and people leader. Continual training, upskilling, and growth are as important as prior experience. Day-to-day, you will: Lead an Agile (Scrum) engineering squad, collaborating with product owners, other squad leads, and development manager, delivering high quality software focussed on delivering our product roadmap and the team results. Support and mentor team members in their duties, training, and personal growth driving high performance and supporting the squad to upskill and achieve their potential. Proactively discuss performance against role responsibilities, competencies and objectives and proactively set any required remedial courses of action - which is then monitored and managed with the individual. Collaborate and be pragmatic. 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. Provide technical leadership, guidance, and direction to the squad Write robust, efficient, secure and testable code that is easy to maintain and debug Identifying security and performance issues, and provide solutions to these problems Own the Agile sprint ceremonies and encourage the squad\'s engagement in these Support and mentor junior team members in their duties and training Actively contribute to requirement ideation and progressive elaboration, and take responsibility for understanding scope, risk and complexity of changes from inception through to delivery. Ensure the squad adopts and develops sound DevOps practices and tooling Make risk-based decisions, using information such as likelihood of failure, customer usage, work-arounds to manage risks within deliverables. Manage delivery and operational risks by ensuring active controls are in place to avoid issues. Actively promote and take ownership of software quality centred activities including code reviews, majority unit test coverage, functional testing by developers, quality automation, optimal running of regression periods and pro-active risk management. Collect and distribute key metrics to communicate progress, risks, quality stats and engineering areas for iterations and releases. Skills and Experience: Experience with leading a small Agile squad, driving technical excellence throughout the engineering process, and taking accountability for the deliverables of the squad Experience with people management models for the squad, including regular team assessments and performance management Experience in functional domains such as HR systems, Payroll, ERP or Accountant systems would is preferred Experience with measuring Agile Product Flow and delivery performance (Burndown etc.) Experience with Quality Engineering frameworks and modern quality methods (TDD & BDD) Experience with advising and guidance of stakeholders in various departments at various levels, making recommendations based on risk, commercial factors, technical approach and strategic objectives Strong personality and communication skills to ensure that your ideas are heard and understood Experience with being a full stack engineer is preferred Experience with Angular or React in building dynamic Single Page Applications (SPA) Strong understanding of popular software testing patterns and experience with TDD and BDD Have a good understanding of various software API patterns and techniques. Strong knowledge in C++, C# and or JavaScript Having experience with Typescript & GraphQL APIs is a bonus Have sound knowledge of database design and build, preferably with Microsoft SQL Server. Experience working with public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) is a plus Some experience with serverless applications and microservices is a plus. 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 and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. On top of a competitive salary, our wellbeing days taking you to 25 days leave a year (rules apply) and a health contribution you\'ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you\'ll also have 3 charity days you can take to support something that matters to you. At Access we\'re all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. 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 whom 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! Love Work. Love Life. Be You.

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