Would you like to create the future of a product used by thousands of businesses and millions of consumers? Phorest Salon Software powers almost 10,000 hair and beauty salons in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Australia, Finland, USA, Canada, UAE and Netherlands and the platform processes 7 million appointments a month for hair and beauty consumers. Phorest is the number 1 salon software brand for premium independent salons in those markets and our next goal is to become a platform upon which other companies can build applications for premium salons.

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

You will join a small team of highly skilled engineers focused on improving our internal systems in order to give all staff a central view of the customer, improving our billing and feature engine and ensuring data integrity across the systems and platform. Our internal teams will be this teams’ customers. This is a brand new team building new services from the ground up and this is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys new challenges and setting the standards for the team.

Given we are a small product group, you will have freedom and control to shape our product vision without bureaucracy or politics.

You will be working on a large distributed system (event-driven and restful services running on Docker and Serverless) solving complex problems in an environment where we look to continuously improve and learn. We work with feature flags and continuous delivery to ensure our work gets to production as fast and safely as possible.

What you’ll do

• You will work with other engineers, product owners and designers to turn internal teams’ requests and problems into features which solve those problems.

• You will get to own the entire lifecycle of a feature. This includes activities such as producing technical design docs, writing and shipping code, planning the rollout to internal customers and being responsible for that feature in production.

• You will spend the majority of your time on technical work, delivering clean, testable code, and will be continually looking to learn from both company and industry engineering best practices.

• You will have the opportunity to work with a variety of systems and applications that touch a wide range of engineering areas, including data processing, automating internal workflows, integrating with external systems, etc.

• You will provide support to other engineers on your team, via activities such as pair programming, code reviews, and generally doing what you can to remove any blockers.

• You will be working with a team of experienced engineers who will provide mentorship to you in order to help you grow and learn.

• You will have the opportunity to shape how we solve technical problems, contributing to key architectural decisions within our product.

What we’re looking for

• Strong proficiency and at least 4 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design, ideally Java, Kotlin.

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

• Someone who wants to own their work from start to finish. Engineers are expected to deploy and monitor the areas of the system they work in.

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

• Familiarity with common software design patterns.

• Experience working with data processing systems and technologies would be beneficial.

• Experience with, or willingness to learn how to operate our AWS based infrastructure and services.

• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.

• Experience working in an agile, product led environment.

• Ability to inspire and motivate, to improve quality and productivity, maintaining technical innovation and excellence.

• Someone that challenges the norm and isn’t afraid to voice their opinion.

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 things casual.
  
  

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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.