Would you like to help to create the future of a product used by thousands of businesses and millions of consumers? Phorest powers over 9,500 hair and beauty salons using our software in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Finland, the USA and Canada.

Our system touches every point of the salon experience. We have the in-salon software desktop application, Phorest Go (the native staff application), online bookings website for salons, and custom native apps per salon. In a typical month, Phorest processes 3 million appointments and we send over 3 million SMS and 4 million emails. We process 200k online bookings per month and over 150 custom built white label native apps.

The Opportunity

The integrations team at Phorest is responsible for developing and improving our platform API to enable us to partner closely with brands and build out best in class integrations with clients and business partners. This is a newly formed team giving you the opportunity to shape and grow a new Phorest integrations marketplace and be part of exciting technical and architectural challenges.

• After 30 days you will have:

  • Joined our fantastic Integrations team and attended daily and weekly sessions discussing our product and technical direction.

  • Met key people from various departments to get a broad picture of everything we do here in Phorest

  • Spent time shadowing our support team to get to grips with our customers problems

  • Paired up with some of our highly skilled engineers to set up your development environment, contribute to our codebase and release new features to our clients

  • Starting learning about our engineering team’s ethos, best practices, guidelines and processes like TDD and CI.

• After 60 days you will have:

  • Demonstrated your proficiency in object-oriented development and design by contributing to one or more of our Java, Kotlin and Groovy projects.

  • Work with an experienced engineer to gain an understanding of our scaled distributed system

  • Had conversations about design patterns to ensure the right solution is chosen

  • Collaborated with the team’s Product Owner to help create acceptance criteria

  • Completed a sprint cycle with the team

  • Become familiar with observability in Phorest

• After 90 days you will have:

  • Been involved in defining requirements on your agile team

  • Told us what you think and suggested improvements to our product and/or process and showed us you are not afraid to voice your opinion or challenge the norm.

  • Been able to see the impact your contributions have had on our clients’ business

  • Told us what more you want to learn and where you want to go, a growth mindset is a must and we want to help you to keep learning.

Who we’re looking for:

A software engineer who’s comfortable with the technologies we use, and working on a close-knit, collaborative team. We work to meet the needs of our users throughout the business, so a multi-functional, collaborative, and service-minded attitude is key. We value good communication, empathy, and initiative in all of our engineers and employees. Some qualities specific to this role include:

• At least 3 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design - (ideally with JVM based languages).

• Experience with distributed services which can communicate in a fault-tolerant manner using both RESTful and message-driven APIs.

• Experience with relational databases.

• Discipline and appreciation of working with CI/CD processes.

• Familiarity with common software design patterns.

• Experience working in an agile, product-led environment.

• Someone who owns their work from start to finish - engineers are expected to deploy and monitor the areas of the system they work in.

• An enthusiastic and effective communicator who is comfortable with technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Bonus points:

• Experience working remotely and with a fully distributed team and company.

• Familiarity with containerized and serverless applications.

• Experience with cloud based infrastructure and services and/or infrastructure as code.

• Experience with GraphQL, Groovy, Kotlin.

Benefits

🧘Your wellbeing is important to us - we provide private healthcare, an employee assistance program and a free online GP service (WebDoc).

💰As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide competitive Compensation, an Employee Share Purchase Scheme, Pension, Life Assurance, and Income Protection.

🚵🏿 We help you travel by providing a bike to work scheme as well as tax saver transport tickets.

🍼We care for your family and provide Enhanced Maternity and Paternity benefits.

🌳We grow our own timber! We provide a great learning environment including an extensive onboarding program.

🤓Career development is important to us. We even have our own in-house Learning and Development/Business coach and many online resources including LinkedIn learning.

😎We don’t believe in formal dress codes. We prefer casual things.

Want to learn more about Forest and our interview process?

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Phorest is an equal opportunities employer and we value diversity at our company. Phorest does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.