Job Title: Junior Software Engineer

Employment type: Permanent, remote with approx. 1 day per month in the office

Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum depending on experience.

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.

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 & 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

• Openness to or experience with AI-assisted development tools

Why join us?

• Great Place to Work® certified — 3 years running

• A supportive, collaborative team who love what they do

• Remote working, with approx. 1 day per month in the office

• Opportunities to learn, develop and grow your career

• A culture that encourages innovation, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing

Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday plus public holidays increasing with length of service.

• Birthday off work.

• 2 paid volunteer days a year

• Holiday purchase scheme

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

• £240 yearly wellbeing allowance

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

• Cycle to work scheme

• Health cash plan

• Free breakfast & lunch 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!

Our Values

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.