Engineering Lead

The Access Group is one of the leading providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organizations in the UK, Ireland, and Asia Pacific. Over the past years, we’ve gone from almost 1,000 to 6,000 people. We help over 60,000 customers across commercial and not-for-profit sectors become more productive and efficient.
Our Global Operations Center in Romania is on a journey of continuous growth and want to engage with top talent around the country. Headquartered in Timisoara, we offer you the possibility to work remote and join our offices at your choice.
Helping everyone at Access Love work and Love life is at the heart of everything we do. It shapes how we do things and allows us to create a place where people want to be and can be at their best.
We’re passionate about our values, which guide how we all make decisions and get things done. We love to make our customers lives easier so our value to ‘Make Access better every day’ is one we’re obsessed with. From attracting the right people, helping them grow and be the best they can be, we’re helping people at Access to love what they do and be happy.

You will contribute to engineering processes within the team, whilst ensuring the team delivers projects, maintains technical and quality standards and is motivated and engaged.
• Quality and usability should be a first-class consideration, baked into the engineering process.
• The product is SaaS, multi-tenanted platform built on API first principles using a Microservices architecture and the technology stack includes Java Spring Boot, JavaScript, Junit, Postman, CSS3, HTML5, MongoDB, REST, JSON, Angular, Bootstrap, Typescript, Apache NiFi / Kafka, Camunda.
• The engineering team have a test-driven development methodology adopting agile best practice.
• Key characteristics for this role: enthusiastic, solutions-focussed, pro-active, loves a challenge, pride in your codebase and the quality of your output, and adaptable.

Design and develop software solutions to meet agreed acceptance criteria and stories using a range of languages and technologies. Ensures dev standards are established, known, and followed within Scrum team.
Own, manage and be accountable for specific projects and deliverables, managing risks and dependencies with autonomy.
Lead a small Agile team by hands-on example, driving technical excellence throughout the development process, and taking accountability for the deliverables of the development team.
Provide technical leadership, guidance, and direction to other members of the development team.
Manage effective source control, ensuring isolation and ability to manage multiple branches.
Actively promote a quality focussed approach within the team, showing ownership for QA activities and collaboration with the QA team. Prepared to test own work and that of others to ensure quality.

Your skills and experiences might also include:

You can motivate and lead teams, driving career development and high performance, and supporting them to upskill to achieve their potential.
You are collaborative and pragmatic. You can 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. You demonstrate self-awareness and ability to adapt message according to audience to achieve positive results.
You write clean, self-documenting code that is well structured, well-named, simple, and easy to read.
You stay up to date with latest technology.
You actively promote and show ownership of Quality centred activities.
You can co-ordinate, plan and manage Dev sprint/release activities. You take responsibility for the entire project, can identify risks early, understand overall project picture and makes decisions/recommendations according to these in order to achieve successful delivery of deliverables autonomously.
You can design source control structures, select, or modify toolchain and deployment processes, and are aware of design patterns in the technologies you work in.
Drives and implements change within the team to achieve Development and business objectives.
You demonstrate role model behaviours, remain optimistic and committed in the face of challenges and can adapt and flex with changing priorities.

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.
 
Healthy, friendly, and inclusive culture
Work - life balance
Hybrid/Remote working
Flexible working hours
Competitive salary package
Great Holiday Package (starting from 25)
Charity day – day off paid by the company for volunteering activities
Private Healthcare & Life Insurance
7 Card Sport Allowance
Meal tickets
Referral Bonus
Christmas Bonus
Big Break – all-inclusive holiday paid by the company
Other benefits