Software Engineer, Phorest
Business Systems
+ Employee Share Purchase Scheme
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Salon management solution
Open for applications
Salon management solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Employee Share Purchase Scheme
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower and inspire salon, spa and clinic owners to grow fantastic businesses while attracting and delighting loyal clients and talented staff.
Role
Who you are
- Strong proficiency and at least 4 years of professional experience with object-oriented software design, ideally Java &/or 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 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
What the job involves
- 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 recently formed 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, and even the wider development group
- Join a team where achieving success often requires a monster flex of creativity and technical expertise
- 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
- Work with other engineers, product owners and designers to turn internal teams’ requests and problems into features which solve those problems
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Work with a team of experienced engineers who will provide mentorship to you in order to help you grow and learn
- Have the opportunity to shape how we solve technical problems, contributing to key architectural decisions within our product
Our take
Annually, significant financial losses plague salons and health spas due to both no-show appointments and sluggish periods. Addressing this predicament head-on, Phorest emerges as the solution, providing salon proprietors with user-friendly marketing software.
Phorest's software allows salons to dispatch appointment reminders and promotional details to their clientele. This seemingly uncomplicated remedy remarkably curtails no-show deficits by an impressive 70% - an extremely valuable offering.
From its inception, Phorest has consistently evolved and broadened its platform, adding features for staffing management, inventory control and strategic marketing. It has also secured funding which has enabled it to confidently vie with international contenders like Zenoti and Booker on the global stage.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$12m
LATE VC
Jun 2018
$20.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $34.3m
Company benefits
- Your wellbeing is important to us - We provide private healthcare, and employee assistance program and a free online GP service (WebDoc)
- As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide 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 causal things
Company values
- Growth Mindset: We are all about growth - when it comes to ourselves, our company & our clients
- Seirbhís Go Hiontach: Irish for 'excellence in service' or 'service without measure'
- Can-Do Attitude: We are dynamic and have a bias for action
Company HQ
North City, Dublin, Ireland
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Leadership
Ronan Perceval
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked in hair salons, and also co-founded Demonware.
Jamie Myerscough
(Co-Founder & Director)Previously served as Phorest's CEO and Sales Director. Is currently CEO of Educogym.
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