Engineering Manager (Pay) - Remote (to GMT +2) / Dublin
About Phorest
Phorest Salon Software is a rapidly growing tech company on a mission to help beauty businesses thrive. Our software empowers premium salons, spas, and aesthetic clinics around the globe with a suite of tools designed to enhance client experiences, streamline operations, and drive business growth. With a presence in the heart of the beauty industry, we are committed to fostering innovation, excellence, and community. And one of the important parts of that offering is our bespoke payments solution called PhorestPay.
PhorestPay aims to empower Phorest to become an established global payments business that serves US and ROW customers with both online and offline operating propositions. Over €4B was processed through Phorest’s salons tills last year, and each month 100’s of thousands of online bookings are created.
The Opportunity
Phorest is expanding its Payments solutions, delivering both online and in-store payment experiences to thousands of businesses daily. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead one of the teams within the Pay Pillar, which currently consists of two teams. Your expertise in delivering high-quality, reliable fintech products will play a key role in scaling and improving our payments infrastructure.
Your primary responsibility will be to grow, coach, and motivate a team of engineers, helping them achieve their individual goals while driving Phorest’s broader objectives. While you’ll have opportunities to be hands-on, your main focus will be on setting your team up for success, removing blockers, and enabling smooth execution. You’ll work closely with the Senior Engineering Manager and Product team to define the team’s strategy while also collaborating with other teams where domains overlap.
Additionally, you should have experience in establishing effective escalation processes for production issues, fostering operational excellence, championing observability, and promoting efficient time management within the team. Your leadership will be essential in maintaining a stable, scalable, and innovative payment ecosystem at Phorest.
What You'll Do
People Management & Leadership
Lead, mentor, and develop an engineering team within the Pay Pillar.
Foster a culture of continuous learning, personal growth, and open communication to enhance team engagement and performance.
Actively participate in recruiting, onboarding, and building a diverse and inclusive team.
Technical Leadership & Execution
Provide strong technical guidance, ensuring best practices, scalability, and maintainability in all solutions.
Work closely with the Principal Engineer to prioritize and address technical challenges effectively.
Contribute hands-on where needed—reviewing code, supporting system design, and guiding the team in building complex distributed systems.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineering teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality solutions.
Ensure technical solutions align with business goals and provide seamless payment experiences for our clients.
Operational Excellence & Observability
Champion the observability strategy, ensuring service level objectives (SLOs) are defined and met.
Implement robust monitoring tools to proactively detect and address system issues.
Establish effective escalation processes and advocate for operational excellence within the team.
Project & Process Management
Drive the execution of key technical projects, ensuring timely delivery while maintaining quality.
Identify bottlenecks, improve processes, and ensure the team follows software delivery best practices.
Regularly report to the Senior Engineering Manager on progress, strategy, and team challenges requiring support.
Who You Are
2+ years demonstrated impact in a similar leadership role, at scale and having direct reports
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a similar related field
Strong proficiency and 5 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design - (for example Java, Kotlin, Ruby)
Experience designing scalable resilient solutions ideally in fintech domain
The ability to collaboratively lead the evolution of your team’s strategy, setting unambiguous roadmaps and goals for the team and then delivering on them in a healthy, predictable and sustainable way
You should be comfortable coaching team members. You will communicate expectations clearly and deliver individual feedback frequently
You have a proven history of building close working relationships with your product counterparts and external stakeholders (like payment providers or 3rd party solutions), with the ability to inspire and motivate, improve quality and productivity, while maintaining technical innovation and excellence
Strategic thinker, with an ability to express and convey thoughts in meaningful ways in a fast paced and evolving environment, with a high degree of autonomy
Experience working with and managing Agile teams, as well as driving improvement across the whole development process
Experience developing and supporting engineers in their personal growth and career progression. You foster an environment where communication, teamwork, and collaboration are rewarded
You’ll focus on quality, while increasing efficiency, delivering value and reducing waste
Experience with monitoring and observability tools
Benefits
🧘Your wellbeing is important to us - we provide private healthcare, 2 Wellness Days, an employee assistance program and a free online GP service.
💰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 support the women who work in Phorest by offering 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause.
🍼We care for your family and provide Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits.
🌳We grow our own timber! We provide a great learning environment and extensive development opportunities. We run development programs and provide access to many online resources including LinkedIn learning.
🏠Moving house? Phorest employees get 3 moving days.
Want to learn more about Phorest? Check out nothingventured.rocks for our blog and Insights on building an evergreen company from the team here at Phorest.
Phorest is an equal opportunity employer. For this position, flexi-time and working from home is possible. We are also open to remote work. Get in touch to ask for more information or to chat about your future with Phorest!
Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalised 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.
- Department
- Development
- Locations
- Ireland
- Remote status
- Hybrid

Ireland
We believe you will like it here
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Innovation at Scale
Phorest is at the forefront of technological innovation. Join us and work on cutting-edge projects that challenge you to think outside the box and bring your boldest ideas to life.
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Meaningful Impact
Your work at Phorest will impact millions of users in the beauty industry. From small salons to large enterprises, your contributions will shape how businesses operate and thrive.
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Collaborative Environment
We believe in the power of collaboration. You'll be part of a diverse and inclusive team that fosters a culture of learning and growth.
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Flexibility
We understand the importance of work-life balance. With flexible work arrangements, you can excel in your career while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
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We Grow Our Own Timber
At Phorest, your development matters. We provide ample opportunities for skill enhancement, career advancement, and attending industry events like ShipitCon.
A unique company culture
Our corporate culture reflects our character and personality as a business. When we ask our team what they enjoy most about Phorest and their job, our culture has almost always been the answer.
And at Phorest, everyone has a role to play in shaping and nurturing that culture. We radiate positivity. We want everyone to feel welcome and supported to be fully involved at work.
About Phorest
Phorest Salon Software is used by 155,000+ salon professionals worldwide across over 11,000 businesses and counting. Known globally for having the best salon marketing tools, Phorest leads with innovation and touches every point of the salon experience.
Founded as a technology company, Phorest now represents so much more. Today, Phorest empowers the Beauty Industry to grow its businesses not just through innovation in technology but also through personal growth, mentoring and support.
Engineering Manager (Pay) - Remote (to GMT +2) / Dublin
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