Senior Software Engineer - Education Finance

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 are a dynamic, skilled developer with a passion for technology and a keen sense of pride in the work you do. You are strong team player who thrives on close collaboration with your colleagues and takes shared ownership of the development pipeline along with the team. You are focused on delivering high quality solutions to given timelines and are comfortable in an Agile Scrum environment, where colleagues often work in different locations and with small time zone differences. You are constantly seeking to improve both your own skills and the skills of others and enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic company. You will be expected to contribute to planning sessions, solution design, and contribute to the technical evolution of products.

You:

• Will be an accomplished Senior Full Stack .NET developer building high quality software predominantly using Microsoft based middle-tier and back-end technologies, built on the .NET Framework, .NET Core and MS SQL Server databases. You will also be familiar with using HTML/JS/CSS that runs cross-browser on the client side.
• Will use modern techniques to build accessible, scalable, and evolvable APIs that are robust and stand the test of time.
• Will demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and plan Dev sprint/release activities, prioritising according to risk and changes in delivery schedule.
• Will display ownership, responsibility, and good decision-making, and will be able to coach and co-ordinate team-mates to achieve project deliverables.
• Will have a good understanding of software industry development standards, applying them appropriately to the scenario at hand.
• Will have the ability to manage and fully automate deployments of products and their dependencies across multiple physical and logical environments.
• Will have a good understanding of source code management best practice (using Git), and ability to troubleshoot issues.
• Will have the ability and motivation to test your own work and that of others to ensure we maintain and also improve our high quality standards.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Take responsibility for assessing the risk of development tasks, taking into account technical and commercial factors, make risk-based recommendations and decisions.
• Work in an Agile (Scrum) team, delivering high quality software focused on delivering team results through your individual contribution.
• Actively contribute to requirements discussions and requirements analysis, and take responsibility for understanding scope, risk, and complexity of changes from inception through to delivery.
• Communicate and collaborate with stakeholders on deliverables and approach.
• Contribute to the continuous development of processes and improvements.
• Identify, compartmentalise, and execute refactoring where commercially/technically necessary.
• Be able to analyse, identify and fix root cause of defects throughout the various layers of an application.
• Understand, identify and adhere to our preferred design patterns, coding standards and definition of done.
• Design and develop software solutions to agreed and elaborated requirements using a range of languages and technologies including C# .NET, JavaScript and SQL Server.
• Help ensure agreed agile delivery process and approach is followed, including estimation/planning, Scrum activities, release and project management.
• Report to Development Lead and Head of Development on progress and areas of risk, including metrics where requested.
• Creation of technical documentation where required. • Work in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures.

As a well-rounded Senior Full Stack ASP.NET Developer, your Skills and Experiences likely include:

• Technologies & Tools:
• C# ASP.NET (Web Forms) & ASP.NET Core
• Web API, Web Forms, LINQ, Entity Framework, Dapper, Async/Await, Dependency Injection, Nuget
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Relational database design, Query Optimisation, Indexing etc.
• T-SQL – Writing, refactoring and optimising T-SQL, Stored Procedures and Functions
• Internet Information Services (IIS)
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular etc.)
• Visual Studio 2019 or 2022
• Git-based Source Control
• Automated Build (CI) and Deployments (CD) with Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Desirable Experience:
• Redgate Tools
• VSCode
• TypeScript
• CSS pre-processors (Less, Sass, etc.)
• Automated Testing Frameworks & Tools
• Azure DevOps
• Azure PaaS Services
• OAuth2
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
• APM Frameworks – e.g. NewRelic / Azure AppInsights
• Domain Driven Design and LanguageExt concepts like “Option”, “Either”, “TryAsync”

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