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 over 11,000 hair and beauty salons in Ireland, UK, 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 high impact team that plays a critical role in helping Phorest to quickly evolve, scale and ship great products for salon owners to run and grow their businesses. We leverage outcome-based foundational work, working on the most important things for Phorest long-term.
This team will enable us to identify, prioritise and mitigate risks that would threaten our future security, availability or agility.

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

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

• Work alongside senior developers and other technical leaders to build our cloud-native data-processing platform, integrating data sources via both batch and streaming pipelines.

• Tackle automation, resilience, and performance challenges inherent in distributed data systems.

• Spot and mitigate future technical risks before they affect customers.

• 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. You’re someone who not only knows when to use a new tool or technology, but also when not to.

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

Who You Are

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 Java, Kotlin or Python).

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

• Hands-on with AWS data services - especially S3, DMS, Glue, and Redshift.

• Comfortable designing schemas for both relational (MySQL/Postgres, etc.) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.) data stores.

• Experience with infrastructure as code.

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

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

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

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.

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.