Software Engineer - Communications

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

We are looking for a new Mid-level Software BackEnd Engineer to join our Communications team. You will join a multidisciplinary group of technology, product, and design folks in building the future of the hair, beauty, and MedSpa industry. You will be a key member of our team, helping them to design and build the future of our multi-tenant SAAS platform to allow our customers to engage, attract, win and retain clients. 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

• Push the boundaries of modern backend development to build fast, ambitious web applications that will delight our clients.

• Collaborate closely with our product team to build features that have a significant business impact.

• Proactively identify bottlenecks and improve our frontend developer experience.

• Work with our design team to build elegant and intuitive UI components.

• Understand our business context deeply and leverage engineering knowledge to come up with creative solutions to problems.

• Thrive in a small, nimble team comprising technical experts.

• Prioritise quality and high standards by continually applying high coding standards, excellent attention to detail, and a methodological work process.

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

• Develop automated unit and acceptance tests to ensure software meets design criteria.

• Never stop learning; pursue the latest technologies, seek the best solutions, and always look to improve.

• Coach and help teammates through code reviews and whiteboarding sessions.

• Get involved at a team level in designing and implementing solutions.

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

Who You Are

• Strong proficiency and at least 3 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design, primarily Java

• Knowledge and understanding of JavaScript, its fundamentals, and latest developments in JavaScript

• Experience in working with and building RESTful APIs (GraphQL a bonus)

• The ability to reason about trade-offs when discussing backend technologies

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

• 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.

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.