Frontend Software Engineer, Phorest
Consumer
Salon management solution
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Salon management solution
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
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
- 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
- Strong proficiency and at least 3 years of professional experience with Ember.js or any other modern JS Framework
- Understanding of JavaScript and its fundamentals
- Knowledge and understanding of the latest developments in JavaScript
- Experience in working with and building RESTful APIs (GraphQL a bonus)
- The ability to reason about trade-offs when discussing frontend 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
- Demonstrate proper coding techniques including maintainability, reuse, clean code, unit testing and driving standards within the team
- Develops automated unit test and acceptance tests to ensure software meets design criteria
- Never stops learning, pursues the latest technologies, and seeks for the best solutions. Always looking to improve
- Coach and support teammates through code reviews
What the job involves
- We are looking for a new Mid Software Frontend Engineer to join our Consumer Group
- 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
- You will be joining the consumer group, working together with a group of highly skilled engineers in building exciting new features
- Your primary responsibilities will involve working with a modern Ember.js frontend stack, incorporating a new design system based on Tailwind. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to engage with GraphQL, Apollo, Node.js
- Push the boundaries of modern frontend 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
- Prioritize 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
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$12m
LATE VC
Jun 2018
$23.4m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $37m
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 HQ
North City, Dublin, Ireland
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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