Lead Software Engineer

We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow. Love Work. Love Life.

Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them. What does Access offer you?

We offer a blended approach to office working, encouraging you to collaborate and connect in one of our thriving offices. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.

Technical Foundation The fundamentals are non-negotiable — your technical credibility is what earns the trust of your engineers. Strong commercial software engineering background with a track record of shipping production systems end-to-end. Clean code, automated testing and CI/CD discipline — you set the standard, which means you have to embody it.

Full-stack capability is required for this role: demonstrable production experience across backend, frontend and infrastructure, with depth in at least one and credible hands-on contribution in the other. Backend-only or frontend-only profiles do not meet the bar. Solid SQL and relational database skills; experience with cloud-hosted databases in production.

Experience designing and consuming RES

Tful APIs and/or event-driven architectures. Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent). Experience making and commun