Junior Software Engineer

As a Junior Software Engineer at AccessPay, you'll be a key player in an agile development team, focusing on designing, developing, and maintaining SaaS systems that bridge the gap between business banking and their customers. You'll actively participate in the entire software development lifecycle, including coding, testing, debugging, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The emphasis is on creating robust, scalable, and maintainable systems to address the unique challenges of this field. As a member of a small, agile team, you'll directly impact project success and contribute to the growth of our software engineering capabilities.

Our company specializes in revolutionizing financial operations for businesses of all scales. With a primary focus on facilitating millions of payments, we offer a cutting-edge solution that replaces manual banking processes with highly efficient automated workflows. Our innovative approach not only reduces the risk of fraud and errors but also provides
enhanced visibility into financial data. By streamlining finance operations, we empower companies to navigate the complexities of payment processing with ease, ensuring a secure, efficient, and transparent financial ecosystem.

Our employees live by our company values:

Always Learning: Our team are a naturally inquisitive bunch, always striving to become experts in our field. We are committed to sharing knowledge and skills with our colleagues and customers. AccessPay provides an environment that fosters personal development and professional growth for all of our people.

Supportive: Helpfulness sits at the heart of our culture - when we win, we win as a team. We agree on shared goals, collaborate constantly, and drive relentlessly in pursuit of those goals. We also understand the importance of fun, both working hard and celebrating our successes.

Driven to Achieve: We are passionate and energetic - whatever the mission. When we encounter challenges we show courage, resilience, and initiative to overcome them.
Committed to Excellence: Through our technical prowess, creativity, personal integrity and accountability, we deliver exceptional outcomes and exceed expectations time and time again.

Committed to Excellence: Through our technical prowess, creativity, personal integrity and accountability, we deliver exceptional outcomes and exceed expectations time and time again.,

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve our product software with input and coaching from senior team members


• Working with the product team to bridge the gap between requirements and technical implementation


• Optimise applications for maximum maintainability / stability


• Contribute feedback to code reviews, and collaborate with engineers to deliver quality


• Work with senior software engineers to plan technical approaches to solution delivery
  
  Demonstrate a level of technical competence in C# .NET


• Some experience developing / maintaining or integrating with web based APIs


• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL or PostGres)


• Understanding of XML / JSON data


• Understanding of version control systems


Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of event driven architecture (RabbitMQ or similar)


• An understanding of software development practices such as DRY, SOLID


• Any awareness of unit testing frameworks


• Any experience using Postman


• Any experience with JavaScript Frameworks such as Angular or React
  
  AccessPay is a fintech company committed to making banking operations smart, simple and secure through automated payments and cash management. We empower finance and treasury teams with access to technology that gives corporates the same experience that we as consumers have come to expect in our day-to-day lives.


Head quartered in Manchester we have a diverse, supportive and inclusive workplace culture. We provide people with the balance of remote of office working they need to thrive. Whilst AccessPay continues to grow, we remain a start up at heart but continue to grow agile teams, working cross functionally, learning from each other and not being afraid to take on ambitious challenges.
AccessPay is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As part of our values, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at AccessPay. We actively celebrate colleagues' different abilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith, and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.

AccessPay is proud to be named a UK's Best Workplaces in 2024,Best Workplaces for Development 2024 & UK's Best Workplaces in Tech 2023, by Great Place To Work® company.
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• You will be entitled to 25 days' holiday + 8 bank holidays increasing with length of service.


• Birthday off work


• 2 Volunteer days a year.


• The option to purchase additional days holiday.


• We operate a contributory pension scheme which you will be auto-enrolled into from day one of employment.


• Free Gym Membership with Pure Gym or Wellbeing Allowance


• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave


• Share option scheme after probation


• Cycle to work scheme after probation


• Health cash plan


• Free breakfast & lunch food when in the Manchester office


• Discounted Parking in Manchester


• Access to training - both internal and external


• We plant a tree for every new starter who joins us


• We are a dog-friendly office


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