About Phorest

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 - from the in-salon software appointment calendar and CRM with a fully integrated marketing suite, to staff apps to payments. More recently expanding this experience to include EMR (electronic medical records) for MedSpa clinics.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a new Senior Software Engineer to join our Consultation Team. You will join a multidisciplinary group of technology, product, and design folks in building the future of the hair, beauty, and MedSpa industry. This team looks after the client and patient journey from enquiry, consultation, documentation, and care management. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants a new challenge, where you’ll bring your experience to a supportive, growth-mindset environment that will enable us to achieve our goals. 

You will be shaping the future of a high-scale, distributed system, leveraging event-driven architecture and modern cloud technologies like Docker and Serverless. Your contributions will impact millions of users globally. You will be 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 as possible.

What You'll Do

• Recommend and implement new software component designs or enhancements to existing software products

• Work with our product designers and owners to turn high-level requirements into user stories and shippable features

• Quality & high standards really matter to us - you will focus on continually applying high coding standards, excellent attention to detail, and a methodological work process

• Demonstrate proper coding techniques including maintainability, reuse, clean code, unit testing, and driving standards within the team

• Never stop learning, pursuing, and understanding the latest technology trends, with a pragmatic approach to solution design. Someone who knows not only when to use a new tool or technology, but also when not to

• Coach and support teammates through code reviews and whiteboarding sessions

• Be that person who takes the initiative in designing and implementing solutions that provide positive outcomes for the team and business

• Challenge the norm and aren't afraid to voice their opinion

Who You Are

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a similar related field

• Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to learn and grow

• Strong proficiency and at least 5 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design, primarily Java

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

• Proficiency with or willingness to learn TypeScript/JavaScript, specifically for implementing GraphQL APIs and schema design

• Experience with GraphQL would be beneficial but not mandatory

• Experience and deep understanding of modern software engineering practices such as continuous delivery, TDD, MVC, ORM

• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases and performance tuning Experience working in a scrum environment

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

• Great communication: Cross-team collaboration is key in our organisation, we are looking for people who are excellent at understanding others ideas and explaining theirs

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.