Principal 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.

On top of a competitive salary, our wellbeing days taking you to 25 days leave a year and a health contribution, you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We’re an organisation that likes to give back, so you’ll also have two charity days allocated to support a cause that matters to you.

About you:

You are a highly hands-on senior engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving platform performance and influencing technical direction within a collaborative product environment. You are passionate about modern engineering practices, scalable backend systems and building reliable, high-quality software.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role within a small and highly collaborative engineering team. We expect you to remain closely involved in technical implementation, architecture discussions, refactoring initiatives and engineering decision-making, while also providing technical guidance and support across the wider team.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Drive technical improvements across the platform, including performance optimisation, refactoring and modernisation initiatives.
• Contribute hands-on to backend development using Java/Kotlin and Spring technologies.
• Collaborate closely with backend engineers, QA, DevOps and product stakeholders to support technical delivery and platform stability.
• Influence architecture and engineering decisions while supporting best practices, code quality and long-term maintainability.

Your skills and experiences might also include:

• Strong commercial experience with Java and/or Kotlin in backend product environments.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, scalable systems and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with Spring Framework, microservices and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Frontend exposure (React, Angular or similar) beneficial but not essential.

What are we all about?

The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered business management software providers. It provides solutions that empower more than 160,000 small and mid-sized organisations in commercial and non-profit sectors across Europe, USA and APAC, giving every employee the freedom to do more of what's important. Its innovative cloud solutions and integrated AI software experience across multiple Access products transform how business technology is used.

With over 9,300 talented individuals driving innovation and customer excellence, we’re shaping the future of work. And we want you to be part of it. At Access, people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re committed to creating an inclusive, high-performing culture where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive. If you’re excited about this role - even if your experience doesn’t tick every box - you might be exactly who we’re looking for.

We believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. So why not join our vibrant team, where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you?

Let’s make a difference together.

Love Work. Love Life. Be You.