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

AccessPay leads the way in payments operations excellence for finance and treasury teams. Our cloud-based platform seamlessly connects corporates to their banks, modernising banking operations, minimising the risk of fraud and error, enhancing payments efficiency, and optimising cash visibility.

All employees live by the following AccessPay values:

Always Learning 🔎
They are naturally inquisitive, always striving to become an expert in our field.

Supportive 🫂
Helpfulness sits at the heart of your culture, when they win, we win as a team.

Driven to Achieve 🎯
They are passionate and energetic - whatever the mission. When they encounter challenges they show courage, resilience, and initiative to overcome them

Committed to Excellence 🪙
Through their technical prowess, creativity, personal integrity and accountability, they deliver exceptional outcomes and exceed expectations time and time again

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 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

Benefits

• 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 Salary Exchange pension scheme which you will be auto-enrolled into from day one of employment.
• Free Gym Membership with Pure Gym or £240 yearly Wellbeing Allowance.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• 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 joiner that joins us!
• We are a Dog-Friendly office.
• and many more!

We are proud to be recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces® and an official Great Place to Work®! As we continue to grow, we are looking for an ambitious individual who is ready to take their career to the next level. If you are eager to thrive in an environment that prioritises employee growth and development, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Check out our Company page on the Great Place to Work website: Working at AccessPay | Great Place To Work® UK